John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans, MC

Military Cross

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 was born on 11 June 1890 at 13 Grosvenor Gardens London

London

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 to Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans

Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans

Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans Henry Cornwallis Eliot was born in London on 11 February 1835 to Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans and his wife Jemima née Cornwallis .Henry was educated at Eton College from 1845 - 1847, and served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy in the...

 (11 February 1835 - 24 September 1911) and his wife Emily Harriett Labouchere (24 June 1844 - 18 October 1933).

He was educated at a college in St Peter Intra, Broadstairs

Broadstairs

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, Kent

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 and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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. He subsequently became a Captain in the 2nd Dragoons of the Scots Greys

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, and fought in the First World War

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, being awarded a MC.

Family

He married Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset (15 April 1897 - 30 August 1968), the eldest daughter of the 9th Duke of Beaufort, on 11 June 1918 in London and they had two daughters:

1. Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot (26 February 1919 - 20 April 1963) who was thrice married; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting (9 Sep 1917-k.a.Middle East Jan 1943), by whom she had one daughter Davina (1940-1976); m.2nd 24 Feb 1945 (annulled 1949) David Frederick Hew Dunn (b. 1917); m.3rd 22 Dec 1949 Ralph Alexander Rubens (died 1995) by whom she had one daughter Alexandra (b. 1950). Her elder daughter died in a car crash with her son, leaving issue one daughter Frederica Samantha Mary Cope, now Mrs David Arthur Thomas (born 1963). Her younger daughter is now Mrs Alexandra Peyronel. Both women, co-heiresses to one-half each of the barony of Botetourt
   Baron Botetourt
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    have issue.
2. Lady Cathleen Blanche Lily Eliot
   Lady Cathleen Hudson
   Lady Cathleen Blanche Lily Eliot, later Seyfried, later still Hudson was the younger daughter of John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans and Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset, daughter of the 9th Duke of Beaufort...
   
   (29 July 1921 - 1994); her elder son is David Seyfried Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert
   David Seyfried Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert
   David John Seyfried-Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert is a British peer.- Biography :He was born David John Seyfried, the son of Captain John Seyfried, Royal Horse Guards, and Lady Cathleen Eliot, daughter of the 6th Earl of St Germans...
   
    (born 1952). He has descendants.

John died on 22 March 1922 from the effects of an accident sustained during a Point-to-Point race at Wrangton nr Totnes

Totnes

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, Devon

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. As the youngest son with no sons to inherit, his title passed to his first cousin Granville John Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans

Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans

Granville John Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans was an English aristocrat.- Early life :Granville Eliot was the son of Charles George Cornwallis Eliot and his wife, Constance Rhiannon Guest...

(22 September 1867 - 20 November 1942).