Background
On 19 November 1748 he succeeded his father.
On 19 November 1748 he succeeded his father.
In 1742, he matriculated at Street Mary Hall, Oxford but did not graduate. During 1747–1748, he travelled in Continental Europe, principally the Dutch Republic, Germany and Switzerland. In 1751, Edward was appointed Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall.
From 1760 until 1776, Edward was one of the eight Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, and in 1775 he again became Receiver General of the Duchy.
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 raised to the peerage as Baron Eliot, of Street Germans in the County of Cornwall, and he took his seat in the House of Lords on 2 February 1784.
In 1789 he changed his surname from Eliot to Craggs-Eliot, presumably to prevent the extinction of the Craggs surname. Edward married on 25 September 1756 at Street James" Church, Westminster, to Catherine Elliston (September 1735 – 23 February 1804), daughter of Captain Edward Elliston and Catherine Gibbon, the aunt of Edward Gibbon, with four children:
Edward James Eliot (9 August 1757 – September 1757)
Edward James Eliot (24 August 1758 – 20 September 1797)
John Eliot, 1st Earl of Street Germans (30 September 1761 – 17 November 1823)
William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Street Germans (1 April 1767 – 19 January 1845)
Eliot died at his Portuguese Eliot estate on 17 February 1804, and was buried at Street Germans, Cornwall.
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From 1748–1768 he was Member of Parliament for Street Germans, Cornwall, the place of his family estate Portuguese Eliot.
In succession, he became Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Liskeard (1768–1774), for Street Germans (1774–1775), and for Cornwall (1775–1784).