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Eliot, Edward Granville, 1798-1877
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ELIOT, EDWARD GRANVILLE, 3RD EARL OF ST. GERMANS, only son of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St. Germans, and his first wife Lady Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower, fourth dau. of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); b. 29 Aug 1798; adm. 3 Feb 1809; left 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1815; Secretary to Legation, Madrid 1823, Lisbon 1824; MP Liskeard Jan 1824-32 East Cornwall (Cons) 1837- 19 Jan 1845; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1827-30; Envoy Extraordinary to Spain 1834, where he induced the Royalists and Carlists to make the “Eliot Convention” for the humaner treatment of their prisoners; Chief Secretary for Ireland Sep 1841 - Jan 1845; Privy Councillor 3 Sep 1841; Postmaster-General Jan - Jul 1846; although a Conservative politician up to 1846, he followed Sir Robert Peel over the abolition of the Corn Laws and held office under subsequent Peelite and Liberal Prime Ministers; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Dec 1852- Feb 1855; Lord Steward of the Household 1857-8, 1859-66; GCB 24 Jan 1857; DL Cornwall 1841; Hon. LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 20 Nov 1841; m. 2 Sep 1824 Lady Jemima Cornwallis, third dau. of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquis Cornwallis; d. 7 Oct 1877. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.