Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (11 February 1835 – 24 September 1911) Henry Cornwallis Eliot was born in

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on 11 February 1835 to

Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (29 August 1798 – 7 October 1877; styled Lord Elliot from 1823 to 1845) was a British politician and diplomat. Background and education St Germans was born in Plymouth, Devon, the son of Willi ...

and his wife Jemima née Cornwallis (24 December 1803 – 2 July 1856). Henry was educated at

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from 1845 to 1847, and served as a

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in the

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in the

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from 1848 to 1853. He was appointed as a Junior Clerk in the

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on 28 January 1855, where he worked until he succeeded to the

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in 1881. In July 1867, he was Secretary to a special mission of Earl Vane to

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to invest the

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with the

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. He was an Assistant Clerk from 1872 until the death of his older brother William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, 4th Earl of St Germans on 19 March 1881 when he succeeded as 5th

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. In the 1881

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, he was living at 13

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, St George Hanover Square, London1881 UK Census: RG11/0101 f.54 p. 25

Family

Henry married on 18 October 1881 at the

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, Savoy Street, London to Emily Harriett Labouchere (24 June 1844 – 18 October 1933), the daughter of

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, the first and last

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. They had two sons: #Edward Henry John Cornwallis Eliot, Lord Eliot (30 August 1885 – 24 August 1909) # John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (11 June 1890 – 31 March 1922) Henry died on 24 September 1911 at

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and is buried at St Germans Church. His titles passed to his second son, John, since the eldest son had predeceased him without male issue.

References

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