John Eliot was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1640 and from 1660 to 1685..

Eliot was the son of Sir John Eliot

John Eliot (statesman)

Sir John Eliot 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.-Family and early life:...

 of Port Eliot. He was educated at Blundell's School

Blundell's School

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 in Tiverton and at Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College, Oxford

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. He travelled in France in 1631 and 1632 and succeeded to an estate of £1,500 per annum on the death of his father in 1632.

In April 1640, Eliot was elected Member of Parliament

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 for St Germans

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 in the Short Parliament

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. He played little part in the English Civil War

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  but was on the County Committee in 1644. He was voted £7,000 compensation by the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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 in 1647 for damage to his estates caused by the Royalists.

In 1660, Eliot was elected MP for St Germans in the Convention Parliament and was re-elected to the Cavalier Parliament

Cavalier Parliament

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in 1661. He sat until 1679.

Eliot died at the age of 72 and was buried at St Germans on 25 March 1685.

Eliot married Honora Norton, daughter of Sir Daniel Norton of Southwick Hampshire.