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- --- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton, 1801, page 381:
Gives date of portrait in PE Dining Room of Richard Eliot as 1742.
--- "Journal of the Ex Libris Society" Vol 6, 1897, page 149:
No. 191.--- Eliot impaling Craggs. Arms, Azure, a fesse between four cotises wavy gules, for Eliot; quarterly, engrailed or and azure, in the first quarter an escallop shell gules, for Craggs. This is the book-plate of Richard Elliot, of Port Elliot, co. Cornwall, father of the first Baron Eliot and ancestor of the Earls of St. Germans, ob. 1748. He married Harriot, natural daughter of the Rt. Hon. James Craggs, Secretary of State to George I., ob. 1769; she had the arms impaled in the plate granted to her in 1726.
--- "Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886" (1500-1714, Volume II, E, 18 of 40):
Eliot, Richard, s. William, of St. Germans, Cornwall, gent. Balliol Coll., matric. 15 July, 1712, aged 18; B.A. 1716, auditor and receiver-general to Prince of Wales; M.P. St. Germans Jan., 1733, Liskeard 1734-47, and St. Germans 1747, until his death 19 Nov., 1748; brother of Edward 1703.
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--- "Newcastle Courant" Friday, 18 Mar 1720, page 7:
From the Evening-Post, London, March 11.
Mr. Eliot, Brother to Mr. Eliot, one of the Commissioners of the Victualling Office, is appointed Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, he was in that Station last Year in Sweden under the Lord Carteret.
--- "Stamford Mercury" 23 Mar 1721, page 8:
'Tis said, that Mr. Elliot, who was last Year Secretary to the Lord Careteret in Sweden, is appointed Secretary to the English Ambassy at Paris.
--- "Stamford Mercury" 28 May 1724, page 8:
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint George Townshend, Christopher Montagu, James Vernon, John Whetham, Roger Gale, Benjamin Mildmay, Richard Elliot, George Ducket, and Patrick Haldane, Esqrs; to be Commissioners for the Management and Receipt of the Revenues of the Excise, and other Duties, and of the Inland Duties upon Coffee, Tea and Chocolate.
--- Parker's Penny Post, Monday, 18 Nov 1726, page 3:
Last Wednesday Noon was finish'd the drawing of the State Lottery at Guildhall. No. 13,733 was the last drawn Ticket & entitled to a prize of a 1,000l. which fell to Richard Eliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise. By the Account kept of the drawing of the Tickets, there were but four left in the Wheel.
--- "Caledonian Mercury" 22 Nov 1726, page 3:
'Tis discoursed that several Indictments will be lodged next Sessions against the Stockjobbers, for base and pernicious Practices in the Lottery, the Drawing whereof ended Yesterday Forenoon, the last drawn Ticket was No. 13733, and as such a Prize of 1000 l. which fell to Richard Elliot, Esq; one of the Commissioners of Excise.
--- "Caledonian Mercury" 22 May 1729, page 1:
London, May 15. Robert Eyre, Esq; is made a Commissioner of the Excise, in the Room of Richard Elliot, Esq; who is made Auditor to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for the Dutchy of Cornwall, worth 500 l. per annum.
--- "Newcastle Courant" 24 May 1729, page 1:
A new commission is preparing to pass the Seals, appointing the following Gentlemen Commissioners of the Excise, . . . the last in the room of Robert [sic] Eliot, Esq; who is made Auditor to his Royal Highness the the Prince of Wales for the Dutchy of Cornwall, a Patent Place worth about 500 l. per Annum.
---Daily Post, London, Tuesday, 17 Apr 1731, page 1:
Some Days since Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Esq.; Surveyor-General to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was overturned in his Coach near Dorchester, as he was going down to Cornwall, by which Misfortune his Arm was broke; but soon after it was set by Mr. Cheselden, an Eminent Surgeon, who was then in those parts.
--- Daily Post, London, Sunday, 22 Apr 1731, page 1:
Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Esq.; Surveyor-General to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who had his Arm broke by the overturning of his Coach, as he was going down to Cornwall, is pretty well recover'd.
--- "History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:
1745: "A hogshead of cider at the bonfire, and other expenses October 9th, being thanksgiving day, this paid by Mr Eliot and Mr Trelawny."
(N.B. Richard, in 1741, was the first member of the Eliot family to be appointed Mayor of Liskeard.)
--- "Derby Mercury" 18 Nov 1748, page 4:
Last Saturday died Richard Elliot, Esq; of Port Elliot in the County of Cornwall, and Member for St. German's in that County, which Borough and Leskeard he represented in four Parliaments; he was Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Prince of Wales.
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