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Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior

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officer.

Military career

Heathfield was a soldier who served as lieutenant-colonel of the

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. He largely demolished

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, the family home, and built in its place a neo-classical house faced with tiles imitating Portland stone, an undertaking which he completed c.1800. He was colonel of the

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from 1810 until his death in 1813 and served as a lord of the bedchamber under

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from 1812 until his death. He did not marry, had no children and the barony became extinct when he died. Heathfield's library was sold at auction by Leigh & Sotheby in London on 17 March 1814 (and five following days).A copy of the catalogue is at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(9)).

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Sources

*Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999 , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Heathfield, Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron British Army generals 2 1750 births 1813 deaths