Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
His sister Anne, who married Captain Hugh Bonfoy, was a noted beauty who was painted twice by Sir Joshua Reynolds.From 1748 to 1768 he was Member of Parliament for St Germans, Cornwall, the place of his family estate Port Eliot.However, in 1776 he notably voted against the employment of Hessian Troops, and resigned from the Board of Trade and Plantations, and from the government.On 13 January 1784, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eliot, of St Germans in the County of Cornwall,[2] and took his seat in the House of Lords on 2 February 1784.Eliot was an acquaintance of Dr Samuel Johnson and a friend and patron of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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