Background
Eliot was third son of Sir William Eliott, the 6th Baronet. He was born in 1796, and married, in 1830, Isabella Lucy, daughter of the Review Robert Eliott, vicar of Askham (who died in 1871).
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Career
Of that name, of Stobs, Roxburghshire. Eliott emigrated to Australia, and in July of 1859 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Burnett but had only served 5 months when the Colony of Queensland was created and his seat became redundant. He was then elected to the first Legislative Assembly of that colony in April 1860, as member for Wide Bay.
On the meeting of the House in May he was elected the first Speaker, and, having been thrice successively re-elected in the next three Parliaments, voluntarily retired in November
1870, when he was created Companion of St. Michael and St. George
Eliott died on 30 June 1871 and was buried in Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery.
