Career
He was President of the Massachusetts Bank and a prominent Boston merchant. He was the father of Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician), the grandfather of Samuel Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton and Charles William Eliot.
He was President of the Massachusetts Bank and a prominent Boston merchant. He was the father of Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician), the grandfather of Samuel Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton and Charles William Eliot.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
He founded the Eliot chair of Greek Literature at Harvard and was a corresponding member of the American Society (1768).