UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 29 August 1798, Plymouth, Devon

Died: 7 October 1877

Baron Eliot - 17 November 1823

3rd Earl of St Germans - 19 January 1845

Member of Privy Council - 1841

Member of Privy Council of Ireland - 1841

son of

son of Lady Georgina Leveson-Gower

husband of Lady Jemima Cornwallis

Westminster School (1809 - 1811)

Christ Church, Oxford (December 1815 -)

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	30 April 1827	24 November 1830
Chief Secretary for Ireland	6 September 1841	1 February 1845
Postmaster-General	1845	1846
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland	1853	1855

May 1831	Liskeard	Tory	Unopposed
6 January 1835	Bodmin	Conservative Party	118	50.43
10 August 1837	Eastern Cornwall	Conservative Party	2,430	52.28
15 July 1841	Eastern Cornwall	Conservative Party	3,006	66.08
6 September 1841 Resignation of Baron Eliot on appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
29 September 1841	Eastern Cornwall	Conservative Party	Unopposed
19 January 1845 Succession of Rt Hon Baron Eliot to the Peerage - 3rd Earl of St Germans.