Ancestral Trails 2016 » Edward Granville ELIOT (1798-1877)

Personal data Edward Granville ELIOT 


Household of Edward Granville ELIOT

He is married to Jemima CORNWALLIS.

They got married on September 2, 1824 at St James, Westminster, Middlesex, he was 26 years old.


Notes about Edward Granville ELIOT

Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans GCB PC DL (29 August 1798 - 7 October 1877), styled Lord Elliot from 1823 to 1845, was a British politician and diplomat.

St Germans was born in Plymouth, Devon, the son of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans and his first wife, Lady Georgina (13 April 1769 - 4 March 1806), daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford. He was educated at Westminster School from 1809-1811, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 13 December 1815.

Political career
St Germans became the Secretary of Legation at Madrid on 21 November 1823. He became Member of Parliament for Liskeard the following year. Beginning his career as a Tory, he remained loyal to Robert Peel, and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1827 until 1830. Out of parliament between 1832 and 1837, he served in Peel's second government first as Chief Secretary for Ireland and later as Postmaster General of the United Kingdom. He brokered the so-called Lord Eliot Convention in Spain, which aimed to end the indiscriminate executions by firing squad of prisoners of both sides of the First Carlist War. When the debate over the Corn Laws broke the Conservative Party he followed Peel, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government. He was twice Lord Steward under Lord Palmerston. In 1860, he accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of Canada and the USA.

Family life
Lord St Germans married Lady Jemima Cornwallis (24 December 1803, Brome, Suffolk - 2 July 1856, Dover Street, London), daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, at St James Church, Westminster, on 2 September 1824. They had six sons and two daughters:

Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot (17 December 1825 - 15 January 1911), married Walter Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough and was the mother of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough.
Edward John Cornwallis Eliot, Lord Eliot (2 April 1827 - 26 November 1864), born London, educated at Eton from 1839-1843, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 21 October 1844, styled Lord Eliot from January 1845, commissioned a Cornet and Sub-lieutenant, 1st Regiment of Life Guards and subsequently Captain of that Regiment, 1852, died unmarried at Port Eliot.
Captain Hon. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot (9 September 1828 - 5 November 1854), officer Coldstream Guards, killed at the Battle of Inkerman.
William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, 4th Earl of St Germans (14 December 1829 - 19 March 1881)
Hon. Ernest Cornwallis Eliot (28 April 1831 - 23 January 1832)
Lady Elizabeth Harriet Cornwallis Eliot (September 1833 - 16 March 1835)
Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (11 February 1835 - 24 September 1911)
Colonel Hon. Charles George Cornwallis Eliot, CVO (16 October 1839 - 22 May 1901), courtier and soldier, married on 26 October 1865 Constance Rhiannon Guest, daughter of Sir John Josiah Guest, Bt and Lady Charlotte Guest, succeeded Roden Noel as a Groom of the Bedchamber 1871 to 1899, then replaced by Sir Francis Knollys and succeeded Alpin McGregor as a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Queen Victoria.

Lord St Germans died at St Germans on 7 October 1877, aged 79. He was the great-grandfather of Margaret Eliot (1914-2011), the mother of Peter and Jane Asher.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Eliot,_3rd_Earl_of_St_Germans

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Edward Granville ELIOT

Granville LEVESON-GOWER
1721-1803
Susanna STEWART
1742-1805
William ELIOT
1767-1845

Edward Granville ELIOT
1798-1877

1824

Jemima CORNWALLIS
1803-1856


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Birthday August 29, 1798

  • The temperature on August 29, 1798 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1798: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 20 » Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
    • April 7 » The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
    • May 25 » United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
    • June 5 » The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
    • July 11 » The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
    • July 21 » French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.

Day of marriage September 2, 1824

  • The temperature on September 2, 1824 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1824: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 7 » World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
    • August 5 » Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos.
    • August 15 » The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
    • October 4 » Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
    • October 21 » Portland cement is patented.
    • December 9 » Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

Day of death October 7, 1877

  • The temperature on October 7, 1877 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
    • May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
    • June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
    • September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
    • October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
    • November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.


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