Richard Eliot

Bef 1652 - Bef 1685  (< 33 years)

• Name	Richard Eliot
  Born	Bef 22 Apr 1652
  Christened	22 Apr 1652	St. Germans, Cornwall   [1]
  Died	Bef 22 Dec 1685
  Buried	22 Dec 1685	St. Germans, Cornwall   [1]
  Person ID	I00310	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 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

  
  

• Notes

  Died a bachelor. --- "The House of Commons, 1660-1690" Vol. 1, page 260: Eliot, Richard (1652-85), of Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall. St. Germans 1679 (Mar.), 1679 (Oct.), 1681 Ensign, Plymouth garrison 1676-8. Commr. for assessment, Cornwall. 1679-80. As a younger son Eliot was intended for a military career and in 1676 entered the service at Plymouth garrison under the Earl of Bath. In 1678, however, the justices for the Western circuit received a warrant to suspend the execution of any sentence passed on him should he be found guilty of the death of one John Grimes of Plymouth. Possibly this incident caused him to leave the army, for there is no further evidence of his military career, though he must have been either acquitted or pardoned, since he was returned to the Exclusion Parliaments for his father's borough of St. Germans. Classed as 'honest' by Shaftesbury, he duly voted for the first exclusion bill. Otherwise he was totally inactive. He was buried at St. Germans on 22 Dec. 1685.

  
  

• Sources

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