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412 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. St. Clair, family name of Baron Sinclair. St. Clair-Erskine, family name of the Earl of Rosslyn. ST. DAVID'S, BISHOP OF, see " Lords Spiritual." ST. GERMANS, EARL OF. (ELJOT.) EDWARD GRANVILLE ELIOT, G.C.B. P.C. LL.D. 3rd Earl. Born Aug. 29th, 1798; succeeded his father in 1845; educated at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, and made Hon. LL.D. of Dublin, 1842; was Secretary of Legation at Madrid, 182433, Envoy to Sj.ain, 1833 5 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1827 32 ; Secretary for Ireland, 1841 5; Post- master General, 1845 6; Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 18525, and Lord Steward of the Household, 18578 and 1859 66 ; sat as Press close ^onjhose who take M p for Ligkeard? 1 82 3_32, and for East Cornwall, 1837 45; accompanied H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, 1860; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Cornwall, and a Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall : married (1824) Lady Jemima Corn- wallis, 3rd daughter of the 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, (this lady died, 185G), and has issue, living, Sows, William Gordon Cornwallis, Lord Eliot, (sits as Baron Eliot, which title see). Henry Cornwallis, b. 1835. Charles George Cornwallis, b. 1839, m. 1865. Daughter, Louisa Susan Cornwallis, b. 1825, m. 1850, (Ponsonby). Patron of three livings, Jacobstow, R. St. Gennys, V. Cornwall. Latton, V. Wilts. Creations, Baron Eliot of St. Germans, Cornwall, 1784, Earl of St. Germans, 1815, both in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Srms, Argent ; a fesse, gules, between double cottises wavy, azure. Crest, An ele- phant's head, argent, plain collared, gules. Supporters, Two eagles, reguardaiit, wings displayed and inverted, proper, each charged on the breast with an ermine spot, sable. Seats, Port Eliot, St. German's, Cornwall ; Down Ampney, Gloucestershire. Town Residence, 36, Dover-street, W. Club, Travellers' . .. ST. GERMANS, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, William, 2nd Earl of St. Germans. He was h April. ). I7fi7. and succeeded his brother, Nov. 17, 1823 m. 1st, Nov. 10, 179", Lady Georgriana Augusta Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquese o f Stafford, K.G (she d. 1S06) ; ^nrily. Feb. n, 180Q, Letitia, daughter of the late Sir W. P. .A she a Court, 1st Bart, and sister of the 1st Baron Heytesbury, (she (i. 1810): Srdly. March 7, 1812, Charlotte, daughter of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Robinson, of Denston-hall, (she d. 1813) : 4thly. Aug 10. isn, Susan, daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt, ;th Baronet, (she d. 1830^ ; and d. Jan. 9, 1845, having had issue by his first wife a son and three daughters. ST. GERMANS, Countess of, HARRIET, daughter of the Eight Hon. Re- ginald Pole Carew; m. 1819, the 1st Earl of "St. Germans, who d. 1823. Residence, Pisa, Italy.