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SAINT GERMANS. 13 Ashe A'CotrnT, 1st Burt., by his second wife, Letitia, da. of Henry WyndhaM, of Salisbury. Shu d. H.p. in childbed 10 Jan. 1810. He m. thirdly, 7 March 1812, Charlotte, da. of Lieut.-Gen. John Robinson, by Rebecca, sister of Edward, 1st Earl of Powis, da. of Robert (Ci ivb), 1st Baron Glive ok Plassey [I.]. She d. s.p. 3 July 1813, and was bur. at St. Geo. Han. eq. He in. fourthly, 30 Aug. 1814, Susan, da. cf Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Bart., by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Prowse. She d. s.p. 5 Keb. 1830, at Fulford park, and was bur. at Shobrook, Devon. Admon. April 1830. He rf. 19 Jan. 1845 in his 78th year, at Port Eliot. Will pr. April 1845. Earldom III. Barony IV. 3 and ^ Edward Granville (Eliot), Earl of Saixt Germans, &c, only s. and h., by first wife; 6. 29 lS4 r ) Al1 "' 1798; llt Plymouth and bap. at St. Germans ; styled ■ Lord Eliot, 1823-45 ; ed. at Westm. School, and Ch. Ch. Oxford; Sec. of legation at Madrid, 1823; at Lisbon, 1821 ; M.P. for Liskeard, 1824-32 and for East Cornwall, 1837-45; Lieut-Col. Comm. North Cornwall Yeomanry j 1827; a Lord of the Treasury, 1827-30; Envoy to Spain 1834-35, during the Civil war, arising from the Carliat insurrection, where (by what was known as "the Eliot con- vention,") he Etopped the sanguinary reprisals of the two parties ; P. C, and P C [I ] 1841; Chief Sec. for Ireland, 1811-45 ;/») Hon. LL. D. of Dublin, 1S43; sue. to tic peerage, as above, 29 Jan. 1345; Postmaster Gen., 1845-40' ; C.B. 27 April 1S48 " Spec. Dep. Warden of the Stannaries, 1S52 ; Vickrot of Ireland, as L. Lieut., 1853- 55, receiving the Queen and the Prince Consort in 1853, on the opening of the great Exhibition of Dublin ; G.C.B , 21 Jan. 1857 ; L. Steward of the Household, 1S57-58 and 1856-66. He accompanied the Prince of Wales in 1860 on his tour thro' Canada and the United States. He m. 2 Sep. 1824, at St. James', Westm., Jemima, 3d. da. and coheir of Charles (CoRNWALLIs), 2d Marquess Counwalus, by Louisa, 4th da. ami ( 1 830) coheir of Alexander (Gordon), 4th Duke of Gordon [S.]. She, who was b. 24 Dec. 1803, d. 2 July 1856, in Dover Street, and was bur. in ICensal Green. He d. 7 Oct 1877, aged 79, at Port Eliot, ami was bur. at St. Germans. [Edward .John Coknwai.lis Eliot, <tyM Lord Eliot, after 1845 ; 1st s. and h. sp., 5. at St. Geo. Han. Sip, 2 April 1S27 ; Capt. 1st Life Guards, 18o2. He [/. num. and v.p. 20 Nov. 1801, at Port Eliot in his 38th year, and wasiur. at St. Germans]. Barony. 4 and 6. William Gordon Cornwallis (Eliot), Earl V 1 N70 0I ' '^ AINT Germans, and Baron Eliot of Saint Germans, 3d but 1st surv. s. and h.,( b ) b. 14 Dec. 1S29, at Port Eliot, and bap. at St. Earldom. Hermans ; was Attache at Hanover, 1849 ; at Madrid, 1S50 ; at IV 1R77 kiabon, 1851 ; at Merlin, 1853; at Constantinople, 1857; at St. 1. 1011. Petersburg. 1858; Sec. of Leg. at Itio de Janeiro, 1859, and again, 1861, being Charge d' Affaires there, 1803; See. of Leg. at Athens, 1859, being Charge d'Affaires there, 1861 ; Sec. of Leg. at Washington, 1863-04, ami at Lisbon, 1864-05 ; styled Lord Eliot (after his brother's death), 1864-77 ; M.P. for Devonport, 1866 08 ; was sum. v.p. in his father's Barony, as Baron Eliot of Saints Hermans, 14 Sep. 1870 ; sac. his father, 7 Oct. 1877, as Karl of Saint Hc-nians. He d. nnin. 19 March 1881, at 13 Grusveuor Gardens. Earldom. V. Barony. VI. 5 and G. (Tenby Cornwallis (Eliot), Earl of Saint Germans [1815], and Baron Ei.iot of Saint Iggl Germans [1784]. next surv. br. and h., being 5th s. of the 3d Karl. He was b. 11 Feb. 1835 ; was in the Itoyal Navy, 1848-53; Clerk in the Foreign OlKce, 1S55 ; Sec to spec mission to St. Petersburg!) to invest the Emperor with th e Garter, 1 807 ; Assistant Clerk in the Foreign (") In the " OrevUU Memoirs," it is said of him (when about 45), 10 Sep. 1S43, that "Eliot, tho' well meaning and liberal, and not wanting in ability, is timid." ( b ) His next elder br., the Hon. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot, b. 9 Sep. 1828, Capt. in the Coldstream Guards, d. num. anil v.p. before his eldest brother, being slain at Inkerman, 5 Nov, 1854.