Daniel Eliot

Daniel Eliot

Male Abt 1646 - 1702  (56 years)

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  • Name Daniel Eliot 
    Born Abt 1646  Portsmouth, Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Education 17 Jul 1663  Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Occupation 1679 - 1680  Commissioner of Assessment, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Elected Mar 1678/79 - Mar 1680/81  M.P. for St. Germans Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Elected 1685 - 1687  M.P. for St. Germans Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Occupation 1689 - 1690  Commissioner of Assessment, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Will 02 Jul 1694  This is the date on the Will. Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Elected 1689 - 1700  M.P. for St. Germans Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Elected 02 Apr - 11 Nov 1701  M.P. for St. Germans Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Died 11 Oct 1702  St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Buried 28 Oct 1702  St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Probate 25 Nov 1703  P.C.C. Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I00244  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Aug 2021 

    Father John Eliot,   b. 18 Oct 1612,   d. Bef 25 Mar 1685  (Age < 72 years) 
    Mother Honor Norton,   b. Bef 05 May 1611,   d. Bef 01 Nov 1652  (Age < 41 years) 
    Family ID F00096  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife Katherine Fleming,   b. Abt 1665,   d. Bef 20 Dec 1687  (Age < 22 years) 
    Marriage License 13 Jul 1685  Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Married 23 Jul 1685  Fulham, Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Children 
     1. Katherine Eliot,   b. 11 May 1687,   d. 14 Oct 1724, Whaddon-Hall, Whaddon, Buckinghamshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00062  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Portraits
    Daniel Eliot, c. 1687
    Daniel Eliot, c. 1687
    Portrait by John Closterman.

    Image may not be used without written permission.
    Port Eliot Collection
    Photograph courtesy of Mr. M. Cross.

  • Notes 

    • --- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton, 1801, page 381:
      Gives date of portrait in PE Dining Room of Daniel Eliot as 1687.

      --- "Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900":
      Name: Daniel Eliot
      College: CHRIST'S
      More Information: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at CHRIST'S, July 17, 1663. S. of John, of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Esq. B. at Portsmouth. School, Thurston (? Suffolk). Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 3, 1668. M.P. for St Germans, Cornwall, 1678-1701. Died Oct. 1702. (Peile, I. 606.)

      --- "London Post" Sunday, 15 Oct 1702, page 2:
      Some days since Daniel Eliot Esq; a Gentleman of near three thousand Pounds per Annum, departed this Life at St. Germains in Cornwall, and is much lamented.

      --- Taken from "The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed" by John Whitaker, 1804, Vol. 1, page 170:
      Quoting Browne Willis.
      His son and heir [John Eliot] was buried here, near his grandfather, at the upper end of the south isle --- of this church, March 25, 1685. His only son, Daniel Eliot, esq. my father-in-law, departed this life about the 60th year of his age; was buried among his ancestors, October 28, 1702.

  • Sources 
    1. Christ's College Cambridge Alumni Records (calculated from age at admission) For Place: Unsourced Family Tree Online.

    2. HistoryofParliamentOnline.com.

    3. [S00020] Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Eliot of Port Eliot and Craggs of Wyserley, Copied from Documents in the possession of the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Germans, (Name: Name: Taylor and Company, London 1868;;).

    4. [S00008] St. German's Parish Records, www.cornwall-opc-database.org, (Name: Name: Name: Online Parish Records;;;).

    5. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/fleming-edward-1653-1700.

    6. Parish Record Transcriptions on FindMyPast.co.uk.

    7. [S00029] "A Display of Herladry" by John Guillim et al, 1724, page 323.