Daniel Eliot (1646–1702) of

Port Eliot Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which ...

, 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.Henning, Basil Duke,''The House of Commons 1660–1690'', Volume 1, Secker & Warburg, London, 1983 Born at

in 1646, he was the son of John Eliot and Honora Norton. His younger brother Richard (1652–1685) was also a member of parliament for St Germans. Eliot attended Christ's College at

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

.Cherry, George L.,''The Convention Parliament, 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members'', Bookman Associates Inc., New York, 1966 Following his father's death in 1685 he inherited Port Eliot and married Katherine Fleming. They had a daughter Katherine (died 1724) who married

Browne Willis Browne Willis (16 September 1682 – 5 February 1760) was an antiquary, author, numismatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1708. Early life Willis was born at Blandford St Mary, Dorset, the eldest son of Thomas Wil ...

in 1707. He left Port Eliot to his cousin Edward Eliot, MP.

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1646 births 1702 deaths People from St Germans, Cornwall Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English MPs 1679 English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701–1702

Daniel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

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