John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans


John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans, MC was a British aristocrat.
St Germans was born at 13 Grosvenor Gardens, London to Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans and his wife Emily Harriett Labouchere.
He was educated at a college in St Peter Intra, Broadstairs, Kent and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He subsequently became a Captain in the 2nd Dragoons of the Scots Greys, and fought in the First World War, being awarded the Military Cross.

Family

He married Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset, the eldest daughter of the 9th Duke of Beaufort, on 11 June 1918 in London and they had two daughters:
  1. Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot who married three times; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting, by whom she had one daughter Davina ; m.2nd 24 Feb 1945 David Frederick Hew Dunn ; m.3rd 22 Dec 1949 Ralph Alexander Rubens by whom she had one daughter Alexandra. Her elder daughter died in a car crash with her son, leaving issue one daughter Frederica Samantha Mary Cope, now Mrs David Arthur Thomas. Her younger daughter is now Mrs Alexandra Peyronel. Both women, co-heiresses to one-half each of the barony of Botetourt have issue.
  2. Lady Cathleen Blanche Lily Eliot ; her elder son is David Seyfried Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert. He has descendents.
St. Germans died in 1922 from the effects of an accident sustained during a point-to-point race at Wrangton near Totnes, Devon. As the youngest son with no sons to inherit, his title passed to his first cousin Granville John Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans.