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Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans
b.11 Feb 1835
d.24 Sep 1911
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Name Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans
Gender Male
Birth[1] 11 Feb 1835
Marriage to Emily Harriett Labouchere
Death[1] 24 Sep 1911
Reference Number? Q5720809?


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Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (11 February 1835 – 24 September 1911)

Henry Cornwallis Eliot was born in London on 11 February 1835 to Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans and his wife Jemima née Cornwallis (24 December 1803 – 2 July 1856).

Henry was educated at Eton College from 1845 to 1847, and served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea from 1848 to 1853. He was appointed as a Junior Clerk in the Foreign Office on 28 January 1855, where he worked until he succeeded to the Peerage in 1881.

In July 1867, he was Secretary to a special mission of Earl Vane to St Petersburg to invest the Emperor of Russia with the Order of the Garter. He was an Assistant Clerk from 1872 until the death of his older brother William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, 4th Earl of St Germans on 19 March 1881 when he succeeded as 5th Earl of St Germans. In the 1881 Census, he was living at 13 Grosvenor Gardens, St George Hanover Square, London

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.