William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans

William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans (1 April 1767 – 19 January 1845), known as William Elliot until 1823, was a British diplomat and politician.

Eliot was born at Port Eliot, Cornwall, the third son of Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and his wife Catherine (née Elliston). He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking an M.A. in 1786. From November 1791 until 1793 he was a Secretary of Legation at Berlin, from 1793 to 1794 Secretary of Embassy and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague and from 1796 Minister Plenipotentiary to the Elector Palatine and to the Diet of Ratisbon. Eliot also sat as Tory Member of Parliament for St Germans from 1791 to 1802 and for Liskeard from 1802 to 1823 and served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1800 to 1804 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1804 to 1805. In 1823 he succeeded his elder brother as second Earl of St Germans and entered the House of Lords.

Family

Lord St Germans married four times.

• On 30 November 1797 at Trentham, Staffordshire to Lady Georgina Augusta Leveson-Gower (13 April 1769 – 24 March 1806). Georgina was the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford. They had one son and three daughters:
  • Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (29 August 1798 – 7 October 1877)
  • Lady Caroline Georgina Eliot (27 July 1799 - April 1865)
  • Lady Susan Caroline Eliot (12 April 1801 – 15 January 1835)
  • Lady Charlotte Sophia Eliot (28 May 1802 – 8 July 1839)
• On 13 February 1809 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, to Letitia A'Court (d. 20 January 1810), with no issue.
• On 7 March 1812 at the Earl of Powis' House, Berkeley Square, London, to Charlotte Robinson (1790 - 3 July 1813), with no issue.
• On 30 August 1814 at Walton, Warwickshire, to Susan Mordaunt (d. 5 February 1830), with no issue.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of St Germans

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Marquess of Lorne Edward James Eliot	Member of Parliament for St Germans with Marquess of Lorne 1791–1796 Lord Grey of Groby 1796–1802 1791–1800	Succeeded by (Parliament of Great Britain abolished)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (self in Parliament of Great Britain)	Member of Parliament for St Germans with Lord Grey of Groby 1796–1802 1801–1802	Succeeded by Lord Binning James Langham
Preceded by John Eliot Lord Dunmore	Member of Parliament for Liskeard with John Eliot 1802–1804 William Huskisson 1804–1807 Viscount Hamilton 1807–1812 Charles Philip Yorke 1812–1818 Sir William Henry Pringle 1818–1823 1802–1823	Succeeded by Sir William Henry Pringle Lord Eliot
Political offices
Preceded by Charles Arbuthnot	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1804–1805	Succeeded by Robert Ward
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Eliot	Earl of St Germans 1823-1845	Succeeded by Edward Granville Eliot