ELIOT, John (1612-85), of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornw.

Family and Education

bap. 18 Oct. 1612, 1st s. of Sir John Eliot† of Port Eliot and Radigund, da. and h. of Richard Gedie of Trebursey; bro. of Edward Eliot†.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 147-8. educ. Tiverton g.s. by 1628-9; Lincoln Coll. Oxf. 1629-31; travelled abroad (France), 1631-2.H. Hulme, The Life of Sir John Eliot (New York, 1957), 24n, 266, 270, 345-6, 351-2. m. 28 Nov. 1632, Honora (d. 1652), da. of Sir Daniel Norton† of Southwick, Hants, 4s. (2 d.v.p.), 6da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1632.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 147-8. d. 1685.

Offices Held

Local: commr. for Cornw. 1 July 1644;A. and O. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679. 10 June 1645 – bef.Sept. 1653A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. V.-adm. Devon, 13 Mar.-5 Oct. 1660. 1648 – ?Oct. 1648HCA14/52; HCA30/820, no. 79; HCA30/586, f. 156; HCA50/3, f. 53. J.p. Cornw. 7 Mar. 1647-May 1670. 1648 – ?Oct. 1648C193/13/3, f. 9v; C231/6, pp. 78, 205; C231/7, p. 367. Sheriff, 3 Feb., 10 Nov. 1653.LJ x. 16b, 20a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 23. Commr. Cornw. militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311a. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 695.

Civic: alderman, Lostwithiel 1655–62. Freeman, Liskeard 1661.HP Commons 1660–90.

: St Germans, Cornw.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, D. Beck.Port Eliot, Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ELIOT, John (1612-85), of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornw.

Will

13 Feb. 1663, pr. 4 Feb. 1686.PROB11/382/118.

Estates

inherited priory, manor and borough of St Germans, manors of Tregenhawke (St John’s par.) and Hiskin (St Germans) and other lands in Cornw., and half the manor of Hatch Arundell, Devon;C142/488/61. from grandfa., Richard Gedie (d. 1627; granted 1641), inherited lands in parishes of Landrake, St Stephen-by-Saltash, Menheniot, Delastowe, St Gennys, Altarnun, Probus, Bodmin and elsewhere in Cornw.Cornw. RO, EL/576/1/4/4; EL/576/1/3; EL/576/1/4/3.

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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