John Eliot

1592 - 1632  (40 years)

• Name	John Eliot
  Birth	11 Apr 1592	Widford, Hertfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Nov 1632	Tower Of London, England
  Person ID	I81751	First tree
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2017

  
  

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  Sir John Eliot (11 April 1592 '96 27 November 1632) was an English statesman who was serially imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he eventually died, by King Charles I for advocating the rights and privileges of Parliament. The son of Richard Eliot (1546 – 22 June 1609) and Bridget Carswell (c. 1542 – March 1617), he was born at Cuddenbeak, a farm on his father's Port Eliot estate at St Germans in Cornwall. He was baptised on 20 April at St Germans Church, immediately next to Port Eliot. The Eliot family were an old Devon family that had settled in Cornwall.