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John Eliot (other)
John Eliot may refer to: *John Eliot (statesman) (1592–1632), English politician *John Eliot (missionary) (c. 1604–1690), English Puritan minister and missionary *John Eliot (died 1685) (1612–1685), English politician * Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet (1736–1786), Scottish physician *John Eliot (Royal Navy officer) (1742–1769), British naval officer and Governor of West Florida *John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (1761–1823), British politician *John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (1890–1922), British nobleman and army officer *John Eliot (meteorologist) (1839–1908), meteorologist See also * *John Elliot (other) *John Elliott (other) John Elliott may refer to: Entertainment * John Elliott (artist) (1858–1925), English artist * John Elliott (actor) (1876–1956), American actor * John M. Elliott Jr. (active since 1970), makeup artist * John Elliott (electronic musician) ( ... * John Eliot Historic District, Natick, Massachusetts, named in honor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot (statesman)
Sir John Eliot (11 April 1592 – 27 November 1632) was an English statesman who was serially imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he eventually died, by King Charles I for advocating the rights and privileges of Parliament. Early life The son of Richard Eliot (1546 – 22 June 1609) and Bridget Carswell (c. 1542 – March 1617), he was born at Cuddenbeak, a farm on his father's Port Eliot estate in St Germans, Cornwall. He was baptised on 20 April at St German's Priory, immediately next to Port Eliot. The Eliot family were an old Devon family that had settled in Cornwall. John Eliot was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 4 December 1607, and, leaving the university after three years, he studied law at one of the Inns of Court. He also spent some months travelling in France, Spain and Italy, in company, for part of the time, with young George Villiers, afterwards 1st Duke of Buckingham. Parliamentary career Eliot wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot (missionary)
John Eliot ( – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the ''Eliot Indian Bible'' into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies. English education and Massachusetts ministry John Eliot was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England and lived at Nazeing as a boy. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge. After college, he became assistant to Thomas Hooker at a private school in Little Baddow, Essex. After Hooker was forced to flee to the Netherlands, Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship ''Lyon'' and arriving on 3 November 1631. Eliot became minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church in Roxbury. From 1637 to 1638 Eliot participated in both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot (died 1685)
John Eliot (18 October 1612 – March 1685) of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornwall was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1660 to 1685. Eliot was the son of Sir John Eliot of Port Eliot. He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at Lincoln College, Oxford. He travelled in France in 1631 and 1632 and succeeded to an estate of £1,500 per annum on the death of his father in 1632. In April 1640, Eliot was elected Member of Parliament for St Germans in the Short Parliament. He played little part in the English Civil War but was on the County Committee in 1644. He was voted £7,000 compensation by the Long Parliament in 1647 for damage to his estates caused by the Royalists. In 1660, Eliot was elected MP for St Germans in the Convention Parliament and was re-elected to the Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet
Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet (1736 – 7 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and Physician to the Prince of Wales. Life Eliot, the son of a Writer to the signet, was born in Edinburgh in 1736, and, after education under Nathaniel Jesse, became assistant to a London apothecary. He then sailed as surgeon to a privateer. Having obtained some prize-money in this service, he decided to become a physician, and graduated with an M.D. from the University of St Andrews on 6 November 1759. He was admitted as a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London, 30 September 1762. A fellow Scot, Sir William Duncan, then the King's Physician, gave him help, and he soon made a large income. In the 1760s Elizabeth Ogborne was born to a tea dealer in London and she reported that Sir John Eliot was her father. In 1776 he was knighted, was created a baronet 25 July 1778, and became physician to the Prince of Wales. When attending the Prince during an illness in 1786, Eliot told Queen Charlott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot (Royal Navy Officer)
John Eliot (2 June 1742 – 2 May 1769) was a Royal Navy captain. He was appointed Governor of West Florida in 1767 and committed suicide in 1769, shortly after his arrival in Pensacola. Life John Eliot was born 2 June 1742 in Port Eliot, Cornwall, England to Richard and Harriet Craggs Eliot. His father was an important local politician, and his grandfather had served in the Royal Navy. His father died in 1748, and his mother afterward married John Hamilton, a navy captain. Naval career Eliot joined the Royal Navy in 1752 as a midshipman aboard . In 1753 command of ''Penzance'' was given to Eliot's brother in law, Hugh Bonfoy, and Eliot again served as a midshipman on his cruise to Newfoundland. He first saw action with the Channel fleet in 1756, during the Seven Years' War as a midshipman aboard under John Byron. In 1757 he transferred to HMS ''Marlborough'' (flagship of Admiral Thomas Cotes), which cruised to Jamaica but saw no action due to her poor sailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot, 1st Earl Of St Germans
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (30 September 1761 – 17 November 1823), known as the Lord Eliot from 1804 to 1815, was a British politician. Eliot was born at Port Eliot, Cornwall, the third son (second surviving) of Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot, and his wife Catherine Elliston. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking an M.A. in 1784. He served from 1780 to 1783 as Member of Parliament for St Germans and from 1784 to 1804 for Liskeard. He also held the position of His Majesty's Remembrancer in the Court of the Exchequer. On 17 February 1804 he succeeded his father as second Baron Eliot. In 1808 he became Colonel of the East Cornwall Militia, and in 1810, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. On 28 November 1815, Eliot was created Earl of Saint Germans, in the County of Cornwall, with a special remainder to his brother William Eliot and his heirs male. In February 1816 he took his seat in the House of Lords. Family John married twice but without issue: # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot, 6th Earl Of St Germans
John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans, MC (11 June 1890 – 22 March 1922) was a British aristocrat. St Germans was born at 13 Grosvenor Gardens, London to Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (11 February 1835 – 24 September 1911) and his wife Emily Harriett Labouchere (24 June 1844 – 18 October 1933). He was educated at a college in St Peter Intra, Broadstairs, Kent and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He subsequently became a captain in the 2nd Dragoons of the Scots Greys, and fought in the First World War, being awarded the Military Cross. Family He married Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset (15 April 1897 – 30 August 1968), the eldest daughter of the 9th Duke of Beaufort, on 11 June 1918 in London and they had two daughters: #Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot (26 February 1919 – 20 April 1963) who married three times; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting (9 Sep 1917-k.a.Middle East Jan 1943), by whom she had one dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot (meteorologist)
Sir John Eliot (25 May 1839 – 18 March 1908) was a mathematician and meteorologist who served as the second meteorological reporter to the Indian government, succeeding Henry Francis Blanford. He served as the director-general of Indian observatories from 1899 until his retirement in 1903. He was noted for reorganizing the Indian meteorological department and for his attempts to improve predictions on the monsoons. Biography Eliot was born at Lamesley in Durham, son of Peter Elliott of Lamesley, schoolmaster, by his wife Margaret. He changed the spelling of his surname to Eliot. Matriculating at the rather late age of twenty-six at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1865, he graduated B.A. in 1869 as second wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. Soon elected to a fellowship, he accepted, owing to weak health and with a view to avoiding the climate of England, the professorship of mathematics at the Engineering College at Roorkee in the North-West Provinces, under the Indian g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elliot (other)
John Elliot may refer to: *John Elliot (antiquary) (1725–1782), English antiquary *John Elliot (Royal Navy officer) (1732–1808), Royal Navy admiral, MP, and Governor of Newfoundland *John Elliot (physician) (1747–1787), English physician and scientist *John Elliot (brewer) (1765–1829), English brewer and officer of the Westminster Volunteer Cavalry *John Elliot (politician) (1788–1862), British politician *John Elliot (railway manager) (1898–1988), British transport and railway manager *John Elliot (songwriter) (1914–1972), American songwriter *John Elliot (author) (1918–1997), British novelist, screenwriter, and television producer See also *John Eliot (other) *John Elliott (other) John Elliott may refer to: Entertainment * John Elliott (artist) (1858–1925), English artist * John Elliott (actor) (1876–1956), American actor * John M. Elliott Jr. (active since 1970), makeup artist * John Elliott (electronic musician) ( ... * Jonathan Elliot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elliott (other)
John Elliott may refer to: Entertainment * John Elliott (artist) (1858–1925), English artist * John Elliott (actor) (1876–1956), American actor * John M. Elliott Jr. (active since 1970), makeup artist * John Elliott (electronic musician) (born 1984), American electronic musician Politics * John Elliott (Georgia politician) (1773–1827), U.S. Senator from Georgia * John Milton Elliott (1820–1879), legislator from Kentucky * John Campbell Elliott (1872–1941), Canadian lawyer and politician * John Banks Elliott (1917–2018), Ghana's ambassador to the USSR * John C. Elliott (1919–2001), Governor of American Samoa * John Elliott (New Zealand politician) (1938–2022), New Zealand politician Sports * John S. Elliott (1889–1950), American football coach * John Elliott (British boxer) (1901–1945), British boxer of the 1920s * John Elliott (Jamaican boxer) (1931–2015), Jamaican boxer * John Elliott (wrestler) (born 1934), Australian Olympic wrestler * John Elliott (crick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot Historic District
The John Eliot Historic District encompasses what was the historic early village center of Natick, Massachusetts. Now the heart of the village of South Natick, it now exhibits a diversity of architecture from the 18th to early 20th centuries, laid out along historic 17th-century colonial routes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Description and history The South Natick village center is located in southeastern Natick, formed by the junction of Eliot Street (Massachusetts Route 16) with Union and Pleasant Streets. It is located just north of a bend in the Charles River, and has a documented history of both colonial and prehistoric settlement. The roadways probably predate 1651, likely serving as Native American trails. In that year, missionary John Eliot established a settlement of Praying Indians, the first of its kind, on this site. The present bridge across the Charles is located where an early footbridge was built, and the South Natick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
