3rd Earl St. Germans, Edward Granville Eliot

1798 - 1877  (79 years)

• Name	Edward Granville Eliot
  Title	3rd Earl St. Germans,
  Born	29 Aug 1798	Plymouth, Devon   [1]
  Christened	04 Oct 1798	St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,   [2]
  Education	03 Feb 1809 - 1811	Westminster School   [3]
  Education	13 Dec 1815	Matric. Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17)   [4]
  Residence	Oct 1816	Trebursey   [5]
  Occupation	03 Sep 1819	Brussels (At the Embassy)
  Occupation	29 Jan 1821	Brussels (At the Embassy)
  Military Service	10 Oct 1822	Ensign (Cornwall, 32 Regt of Foot)
  Elected	1827	Mayor of Liskeard
  Military Service	17 Jan 1827	Lieut-Colonel (Regt. of North Cornwall Yeomanry Cavalry)
  Grand Dinner	29 Mar 1828	Lord Eliot, Dover Street, London   [6]
  Occupation	Apr 1827 - Nov 1830	Lord of the Treasury   [7]
  Occupation	16 Jan 1824 - 1832	M.P. for Liskeard   [7]
  Resignation	11 Feb 1833	Borough of Liskeard (Position of Alderman)   [8]
  Occupation	30 Mar 1835 - 31 Mar 1835	Leaves Dover St. for Spain (Lord Eliot Convention)   [9]
  Occupation	1834 - 1837	Envoy Extraordinary to Spain   [7]
  Occupation	1840	Vice-Pres. Elect for British Association for the Advancement of Science
  Census	1841	47 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London   [10]
  Occupation	1841	Vice-President of British Association for the Advancement of Science
  Appointment	2 Apr 1841	Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall   [11]
  Visiting	Sep 1843	Lord E and Jemima Tour Lakes of Killarney
  Residence	1845	7 New Burlington-street (Stables at 8 Burlington Mews)   [12]
  Occupation	Sep 1841 - Jan 1845	Chief Secretary to Lord Lieutenant   [7]
  Occupation	1837 - 19 Jan 1845	M.P. for Cornwall East   [7]
  Residence	1846	36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
  Occupation	Jan 1846 - Jun 1846	Postmaster-General   [7]
  Census	1851	36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London   [13]
  Visiting	13 Oct 1851	Earl and Countess St G Leave Dover Street for Continental Tour   [14]
  Visiting	Mar 1852	Earl and Countess St G Tour Italy and France
  Appointment	28 Aug 1852	Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon   [15]
  Occupation	05 Jan 1853 - 07 Mar 1855	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
  Occupation	23 Nov 1857 - 25 Feb 1858	Master King's Household (2,000 l. pa)   [16]
  Lord Steward
  Residence	1860	36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
  Occupation	20 Jun 1860	Queen's Levee at St. James' Palace
  In Honour of Queen's Accession to the Throne
  Census	1861	Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall   [17]
  Residence	29 Dec 1862	Arrives at Dover-street from Port Eliot   [18]
  Occupation	Between 01 Jan 1864 and 19 Jan 1866	Master King's Household (2,000 l. pa)   [16]
  Lord Steward
  Residence	1865	36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London   [19]
  Census	1871	36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London   [20]
  Residence	1876	36 Dover St   [21]
  Died	07 Oct 1877	Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall   [22]
  Buried	16 Oct 1877	Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England
  Probate	21 Dec 1877	Principal Registry, London
  Person ID	I00251	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2022

  
  

  Father	2nd Earl St. Germans, William Eliot,   b. 01 Apr 1767, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall ,   d. 19 Jan 1845, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower,   b. 13 Apr 1769, Earl Gower's House in Whitehall, London ,   d. 24 Mar 1806, Madeira  (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F00052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Countess St. Germans, Jemima Cornwallis,   b. 24 May 1803, Burlington-street, London, Middlesex ,   d. 02 Jul 1856, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, St. George, Hanover Square, London  (Age 53 years)
  Married	02 Sep 1824	St. James, Westminster, London   [23]
  • "Exeter Flying Post" 09 Sep 1824, page 4: MARRIED. On Thursday, in London, Lord Eliot, eldest son of the Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans, to Lady Anne Cornwallis, grand-daughter of the late Marquis Cornwallis. • "Morning Post" 6 Sep 1824, page 3: MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. On Thursday last, was married at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, by the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Bayning, Lord Eliot, only son of the Earl of St. Germans, to the Right Hon. Lady Jemima Cornwallis, third daughter of the late Marquis Cornwallis. The lovely bride, who is the universal favourite of a numerous circle of friends, was given away by the Viscount Sydney, and attended to the Altar by her amiable sisters, the Ladies Lousia, Mary, and Elizabeth Cornwallis, and Lady Jemima Mann, as bridesmaids. After the ceremony, the happy pair set off in a new travelling chariot and four, for Woburn Abbey, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Bedford. Amongst the company we noticed --- The Marchioness Cornwallis, Earl of St. Germans, Lady Caroline Eliot, Lady Susan and Colonel Lygon, Duke of Norfolk, Hon. Sophia and Mary Townshend (Lord Sydney's daughters), Hon. Caroline and Emily Townshend (Lord Bayning's sisters), Miss Sinderby, Mr. Hamilton, and the Rev. Henry Hasted. In the evening, the Marchioness Cornwallis entertained the Wedding Party with a sumptuous dinner, at the house of her Grace the Duchess Richmond, in Waterloo-place, where her Ladyship is at present residing. We feel assured that the friends of both families will join with us, in wishing that this auspicious union may be productive of the most permanent felicity to the amiable pair, who, from the high character his Lordship bears, appear to have an equal claim to "Heaven's choicest gifts."
  Children	1. Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 17 Dec 1825, 47 Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex ,   d. 15 Jan 1911, 38 Eccleston Square, Westminster, London  (Age 85 years)   2. Edward John Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 02 Apr 1827, Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London ,   d. 26 Nov 1864, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall  (Age 37 years)   3. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 09 Sep 1828, Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London ,   d. 05 Nov 1854, Battle of Inkerman, Crimea in the Ukraine  (Age 26 years)   4. 4th Earl of St. Germans, William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 14 Dec 1829, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall ,   d. 19 Mar 1881, 13 Grosvenor Gardens, London  (Age 51 years)   5. Ernest Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 28 Apr 1831, Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London ,   d. 16 Jan 1832, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall  (Age 0 years)   6. Elizabeth Harriet Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 24 Aug 1833, Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London ,   d. 16 Mar 1835, 47 Dover St., Piccadilly, St. James, Westminster  (Age 1 years)   7. 5th Earl St. Germans, Henry Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 11 Feb 1835, Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London ,   d. 24 Sep 1911, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall  (Age 76 years)   8. Charles George Cornwallis Eliot,   b. 16 Oct 1839, 47 Dover Street, St. George, Hanover Square, London, Middlesex ,   d. 22 May 1901, 8 Onslow-gardens, Kensington, London  (Age 61 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F00121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  --- "North Devon Journal" 07 Nov 1850, page 8: ST. GERMANS' AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY The present Earl of St. Germans, better known as Lord Eliot, formerly Secretary for Ireland, met the Agricultural Society of his neighbourhood on Thursday last. As his lordship is a man of considerable mark, and was formerly a Protectionist, our readers may be interested in knowing what are his present opinions upon agriculture, and we therefore insert his speech, as follows:-- I have, on former occasions, called upon you to drink "Prosperity to the St. Germans' Farmers' Club," and have exhorted you to promote its success by all and every means within your power; but I have never done it on any previous occasion with greater earnestness than upon the present, because I feel that the times call for additional exertion. Now, gentlemen, I believe that, throughout the length and the breadth of the land, a spirit has gone forth, exhorting the farmer to develop the capabilities of the soil to the greatest extent, and to increase to the utmost its productive powers -- (hear, hear). Those who make no effort to keep pace with the march of improvement, will not only be left far behind, but will be less able than those who do to cope with the difficulties to which I have adverted -- (hear, hear). Gentlemen, good farming -- by which I do not mean unnecessarily expensive farming -- will frequently pay, when bad farming will not -- (hear, hear). I take good farming to consist in clean and careful cultivation -- in the application of a proper quantity of suitable measure -- in a judicious rotation of crops adapted to the peculiarities of the soil -- and in a judicious outlay of capital to an amount proportioned to the return which it can fairly be expected to make. In these respects, undoubtedly, science does lend its aid; and very useful and important aid it gives us. It teaches the farmer to analyse different manures -- to ascertain their different properties -- and so to learn how far they are, or are not, adapted to the soil which he has to cultivate; but, as Mr. Roseveare has very properly observed, science of itself is not sufficient. Experience must go hand in hand with science, practice with theory; and it is because I think societies such as this particularly well calculated to apply this test of experience to science, that I think them so important. It is not given to science to penetrate all the mysteries of nature -- to lay open all her processes, or to discover all her secrets -- there are some things which it is impossible for science to find out, or to make clear, until the test of practical experience has been applied to them -- (hear, hear). When I look at the vast additions which have been made, within a comparatively short period, to the number of the productions of other soils and other climates, which have become naturalised in this, I do not despair of seeing that number very considerably increased. It is not 70 or 80 years ago, that the cultivation of the turnip became general in the country; my grandfather was one of the first, if not the first, to introduce it here; and when we see that there is now no part of the country in which it is more successfully cultivated than in this, we may fairly hope to obtain equal excellence in other crops -- (hear, hear). I am not a practical man. I do not pretend to give an opinion worth acting on, but I will venture to call your attention to the single subject of flax. Within the last few years the cultivation of flax has spread with extraordinary rapidity throughout the whole of Ireland; and it is there found to be a most valuable crop, the fibre being applied to the manufacture of linen, and the seed as food for cattle. It is impossible for me to say that the soil and climate of this country are as well suited to the growth of flax as the climate and soil of Ireland. I am far from saying so; but I do think that it is worth the while of our agriculturists to enquire how far it may be introduced here with success. Beyond this I will not go; but when I consider the circumstances of the times, and that we are now exposed to the competition of other countries, I feel that no means should be left untried to develop to the utmost the resources and capabilities of the soil. I do not mean to lay down any rule, or to direct you to any course as that which ought to be pursued; but we should not lose sight of the fact that the immediate district is situated within a few miles of the three towns -- I might almost call them the one town, of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse -- with their population of 100,000; and that there must be, in these towns, with their large and increasing population, a great and growing demand for your meant, milk, butter, turnips, and the other products of the soil. With this market you have frequent communication by water, which you have lately made more available by the introduction of steam; and I may be permitted to remark, in passing, that I think the farmers of the neighbourhood will very much consult their own interests by making that communication by steam as convenient and expeditious as possible. You should not throw away one of the advantages which you possess. If you find that one description of crop will make a better return than another, you should not be so wedded to the practice or routine of former years as to discard it. And without wishing, I repeat, to prescribe any particular course, I think that every man in his own sphere might try some few experiments, and that at these meetings, where men who are engaged in a common pursuit meet together for the advancement of a common object, the greatest possible benefit might be derived from the communication, by individuals, of experiments tried by themselves upon a small scale. With respect to the meeting of to-day, I think that nothing is more calculated to improve our husbandry than the encouragement given by this and similar societies to good ploughing. The time may come when steam will supersede the plough; but, until that day arrives, as good husbandry depends upon the proper culture of the soil, so nothing will do more to promote it than the encouragement of those who plough well -- (hear, hear). It is further important, as showing that we realise and appreciate the exertions of our poorer neighbours, and we may hope that the rewards which have been given, in this assembly, to the successful competitors in this day's trial, will stimulate them to still further efforts.

  
  

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