Daniel Eliot
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Daniel Eliot (1646–1702) of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornwall was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for St Germans from 1679 until 1700 and April to December 1701.[1]
Born at Port Eliot in 1646, he was the son of John Eliot and Honora Norton.[1] His younger brother Richard (1652–1685) was also a member of parliament for St Germans.[1] Eliot attended Christ's College at Cambridge.[2] Following his father's death in 1685 he inherited Port Eliot and married Katherine Fleming.[1] They had a daughter Katherine (died 1724) who married Browne Willis in 1707.[3]
He left Port Eliot to his cousin Edward Eliot, MP.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Henning, Basil Duke,The House of Commons 1660–1690, Volume 1, Secker & Warburg, London, 1983
- ^ Cherry, George L.,The Convention Parliament, 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members, Bookman Associates Inc., New York, 1966
- ^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1900). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
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