Jago Nicholas Aldo Eliot, Lord Eliot (24 March 1966 – 15 April 2006) was the son of

Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans Peregrine Nicholas Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans (2 January 1941 – 15 July 2016), was a British peer and founder of the Elephant Fayre and Port Eliot Lit Fest. Biography Peregrine Nicholas Eliot was the son of Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Ge ...

, and Jacquetta Eliot, Countess of St Germans (née Lampson).

Biography

In 1988, on the death of his grandfather, he became styled

Lord Eliot Earl of St Germans, in the County of Cornwall, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that is held by the Eliot family. The title takes its name from the village of St Germans, Cornwall, and the family seat is Port Eliot. The earldom ...

. Educated at

Millfield School Millfield is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) located in Street, Somerset, England. It was founded in 1935. Millfield is a registered charity and is the largest co-educational boarding s ...

, he was known for his hobbies of surfing and was the European body boarding champion in 1988. Eliot was an early collaborator with

Eddie Izzard Edward John Izzard (; born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's stand- ...

at Covent Garden as a busker, he then moved to Brighton in the late 1980s where he inspired and promoted a number of nights at the ZAP club, including Fundamental and Pow Wow. He returned to Cornwall in the mid-1990s and in 2002 founded the Port Eliot Literature Festival, an annual event held in the grounds of the house. Eliot worked with digital and creative projects, either with the Arts Council or the Port Eliot Literary Festival, and London Arts projects. Shortly before his death, Eliot had been awarded an Artist Fellowship in Creative Technology by Hewlett-Packard and was exploring invisible sculpture and 3D soundscapes. He also began to develop strategies to ensure Port Eliot would continue to be a vibrant cultural laboratory, building on the legend of the

Elephant Fayre The Elephant Fayre was held in the stately home of Port Eliot, St Germans. A " fayre" in every sense of the word, it featured a host of different types of performances, media, experimental theatre and rock, punk, folk and reggae music. The fir ...

and helping define the ethos of the Port Eliot Literary Festival, through conversations with friends such as

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of the Idler magazine. His passion for the arts saw him also involved with the A Foundation, through his Literati project an
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with the A Conversation at Port Eliot in 2006. This was the first in a proposed series on emerging ideas in art, science and technology organised by Jago Eliot an
The Institute of Digital Art and Technology
at the

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. The themes for this seminar were 'art and irrationality' and 'a geography of the immaterial'.

Marriage & children

Eliot married former model Bianca Ciambriello. The couple were first "married" in the "Lost Vagueness" garden at the Glastonbury Festival, before a more formal ceremony at

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 ...

, the seat of the Eliot family. The alternative wedding is featured in Julian Temple's 2006 film Glastonbury. They had one son and twin daughters: * Ruby Eliot (born 7 April 2003) * Violet Eliot (born 7 April 2003) * Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans (born 2 November 2004)

Death

Eliot died on 15 April 2006. He was determined to have died from

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures can vary from brief and nearly undetectable periods to long periods of vigorous shaking due to abnormal electrica ...

, which he had developed in 2004.

References

External links

Obituary in the

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Review of the Elephant Fayre, 1983
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