John Eliot 
John was born on April 11th, 1592 in Cuddenbeak, St Germans, Cornwall.1 John's father was Richard Eliot and his mother was Bridget Carswell. His paternal grandfather was Thomas Eliot and his paternal grandmother is Joan Norbrook; his maternal grandfather was Nicholas Carswell and his maternal grandmother is Maria Gilbert. He had a brother and a sister, named Thomas and Maria. He died at the age of 40 on November 27th, 1632 in Tower London, London.1 General Notes
Sir John Eliot (1592-1632)
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'Peerage and Baronetage' have his year of birth as 1590..
16??/??/?? Educated Blundells School, Tiverton
1607/12/04 Matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford aged 15
16??/??/?? Educated at an Inn of Court
1614/??/?? Entered Parliament as MP for St Germans
1618/05/10 or 18 Knighted by King James I
1622/??/?? Appointed Vice Admiral of Devon by George Villiers, Duke of Buc
kingham
1623/??/?? Captured well-known pirate Captain Nutt
1623/??/?? George Villiers steps in to obtain release of Captain Nutt
1624/10/?? Purchased Borough of St Germans
1626/??/?? Leader of House of Commons; Member of committe to look at impea
chment of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
1626/05/11 Imprisoned by Charles I to save Buckingham (May 11-19)
1627/06/?? Sent to Tower over his concerns / refusing to pay an enforced l
oan (1627/06-1628/01) Anno 1627 3 Car. I
1628/01/02 Released from Tower
1629/??/?? Moved a remonstrance against arbitrary taxation
1629/03/04 Sent to Tower again and fined a thousand pounds
16??/??/?? Wrote:
Negotium Posterorum (first published 1881) - an account of Charles I's fir
st Parliament
The Monarchy of Man (1879) - a philosophical-political treatise
An Apology for Socrates (1991) - a vindication of his own public conduct
De Jure Majestis (1882)
Letter Book of Sir John Eliot (1882)
1630/12/20 Will
1632/11/27 Codicil
1632/11/27 Died of consumption
1632/??/?? Buried at St Peter Ad Vincula, Tower of London. However, the gr
ave is no longer locatable. Requests for his reburial in Cornwall were reb
uffed
1632/12/11 Probate (126 Audley) by Maurice Hill P.T., Sir Dudley Diggs, K
t, John Arundell, Bevill Grenville, Robt Mason & Wm Scawen.
There is much information on Sir John Eliot's political life at
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/mseaborn/hist/england/notes.txt
More than one biography exists:
FORSTER, JOHN The Life of Sir John Eliot, published 1864
HULME, HAROLD The Life of Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, struggle for Parliamen
tary freedom.
George Allen & Unwin 1957 423pp plates £11.00
The Royal Historical Society Camden Series has the following:
1) A probate inventory of goods and chattels of Sir John Eliot,
late prisoner in the Tower, 1633, ed. Harold Hulme.
2) Sir John Eliot and the Vice-Admiralty of Devon, ed. Harold Hulme
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1442 d.1480
- b.1445 in Cornwall, England d.26 Mar 1521 in Cornwall, England
- b.04 Apr 1413 in Basing, Hampshire, England d.24 Aug 1494 in Shute, Devonshire, England
- b.1470 in Shute, Devonshire, England d.1521 in Devon
- b.02 Dec 1423 in Basing, Hampshire, England d.16 Dec 1461 in Devon, England
- b.1505 in Wales d. in Roxwell, Essex, England
- b. in Knightsbridge, England
- b.1546 in Port Eliot, Devonshire, England d.22 Jun 1609 in St Germans, Cornwall
- b.1530 in Exeter, Devon
- b.11 Apr 1592 in Cuddenbeak, St Germans, Cornwall d.27 Nov 1632 in Tower London, London
- d.28 May 1546
- b. in England d.21 Jan 1587/88
- b.1542 in Hatch, Devonshire, England d.1617 in St Germans, Cornwall
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John and Rhadigund were married in a religious ceremony in 1611.1 They had four sons and four daughters, named John, Edward, Thomas, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Bridget, Radigunda and Susanna.
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Children
Elizabeth Eliot
Elizabeth was born on December 29th, 1616 in Port Elliot, Cornwall, England.1 She died at the age of 34 in 1650.1
Bridget Eliot
Bridget was born on April 26th, 1620.1 She died at the age of 49 on November 21st, 1669.1
Susanna Eliot
Susanna was born on October 14th, 1624.1 She died at the age of 38 on June 7th, 1663.1
Thomas Eliot
Thomas was born on September 7th, 1626.1 He died at the age of 4 on December 30th, 1630.1
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