Background
Eliot was born at Portuguese Eliot, Cornwall, the third son of Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and his wife Catherine (née Elliston).
Eliot was born at Portuguese Eliot, Cornwall, the third son of Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and his wife Catherine (née Elliston).
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking an Master of Arts
In 1786. From November 1791 until 1793 he was a Secretary of Legation at Berlin, from 1793 to 1794 Secretary of Embassy and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague and from 1796 Minister Plenipotentiary to the Elector Palatine and to the Diet of Ratisbon. Lord Street Germans married four times. On 30 November 1797 at Trentham, Staffordshire to Lady Georgina Augusta Leveson-Gower (13 April 1769 – 24 March 1806).
Georgina was the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford.
Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of Street Germans (29 August 1798 – 7 October 1877)
Lady Caroline Georgina Eliot (27 July 1799 - April 1865)
Lady Susan Caroline Eliot (12 April 1801 – 15 January 1835)
Lady Charlotte Sophia Eliot (28 May 1802 – 8 July 1839)
On 13 February 1809 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, to Letitia A"Court (d 20 January 1810), with no issue. On 7 March 1812 at the Earl of Powis" House, Berkeley Square, London, to Charlotte Robinson (1790 - 3 July 1813), with no issue.
On 30 August 1814 at Walton, Warwickshire, to Susan Mordaunt (d 5 February 1830), with no issue.
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.
4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament.
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
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Eliot also sat as Tory Member of Parliament for Street Germans from 1791 to 1802 and for Liskeard from 1802 to 1823 and served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1800 to 1804 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1804 to 1805.