Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans (26 January 1914 – 11 March 1988) was a British peer.

Early life and education

Born at 2, Wyndham Place,

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, London, Eliot was the son of

Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans Montague Charles Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans, (13 May 1870 – 19 September 1960) was a British peer and courtier. Eliot was born in Pimlico, Middlesex to Charles George Cornwallis Eliot (16 October 1839 – 22 May 1901) and his wife Consta ...

and Helen Agnes, daughter of Arthur Post, of New York. He was educated at

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Career

Eliot became a captain in the

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, attached to the Royal Armoured Corps. He was a Justice of the Peace and DL. On 16 September 1960, he succeeded his father to become the 9th

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Personal life

Lord St Germans married three times: *On 25 April 1939 (divorced 1947) to Helen Mary (17 April 1915 – 6 December 1951), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Walter Villiers, DSO,

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, of the

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(a descendant of the politician and diplomat

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– himself son of the 2nd

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– and of the politician

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), and Lady Kathleen Mary, daughter of

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. Their children were: ** Peregrine Nicholas Eliot (b. 2 January 1941, d. 15 July 2016) **Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot (6 March 1943 – 6 January 2004) who was married 9 October 1965 (div 1987) to

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. *On 27 May 1948 (divorced 1959) to Margaret Eleanor, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis George Wyndham, of Heathfield Lodge (great-grandson of

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and a descendant also of the Lords Polwarth) and Maud Eleanor, daughter of William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe, of Heath House, Petersfield, Hampshire (son of the politician

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); they had no issue *In 1965, to Mary Bridget Thomas, daughter of colonial Governor Sir Shenton Thomas, with no issue. Lord St Germans died on 11 March 1988 in

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,Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer: An Anthology of Great Lives in 365 Days, Harry Quetteville, Aurum, 2012, 11 and his titles passed to his son, Peregrine Nicholas Eliot.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Germans, Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot, 9th Earl Of 1914 births 1988 deaths People educated at Eton College Earls of St Germans Nicholas Richard Eliot