1694 - 1748 (54 years)
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| Name |
Richard (of Port Eliot) Eliot |
| Birth |
6 Sep 1694 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
19 Nov 1748 |
| Person ID |
I156361 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
24 Jul 2017 |
| Family |
Harriet Craggs, b. Abt 1713 d. 1 Feb 1769 (Age 56 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Mar 1726 |
Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London  |
- Harriot's marriage to Richard Eliot was, obviously, arranged. Although they did grow to love each other, there were more than personal feelings involved in this union. Richard was nearly thirty-two years old at the time, Harriot just "thirteen and one month". There is no doubt as to how they could have met, since they were related through the marriage of Richard's older brother and Harriot's aunt, Elizabeth Craggs, when Harriot was just five years old.
On March 4, 1726, Richard Eliot and Harriot "Smith" applied for a marriage license. Six days later, on the tenth day of March, they were married at Lincoln's Inn Chapel in London. The marriage was a great benefit to both parties, since Harriot was now legally entitled to claim her parentage, and Richard would receive his bride's fortune. No exact figure seems to have been recorded, but her "gilt and gesso" wedding chest still stands in the hall at Port Eliot. (Now one of only three such chests in a private collection, the gilt, when polished and new, would have given the chest the appearance of being solid gold. Displayed on the lid are the arms of both Eliot and Craggs.) Four months after her marriage, on 16 Jul 1726, Harriot was granted her own Arms, which were "Impaled with her said Husband's, in lieu of those descended unto her from her Father." Never again would Harriot use the maiden name of Smith, and her sons (upon inheritance of the Craggs estate) would bear the combined names of Harriot and Richard and be legally known as "Craggs Eliot".
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F61769 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
24 Jul 2017 |
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| Notes |
- Sec. to Lord Carteret in Sweden Mar. 1719-20; commr. of excise 1722-May 1729; surveyor gen. of duchy of Cornwall Jan. 1730-8; receiver gen. of duchy Mar. 1738-d.; mayor, Liskeard 1741-2, 1746-7.
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