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Elliot Family


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 ELL

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Elliot Family

Date(s): [1745-1841]

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Kynynmound | Gilbert Elliot Murray | 1751-1814 | 1st Earl of Minto | Governor General of India x Elliot | Gilbert | 1751-1814
Kynynmound | Gilbert Elliot Murray | 1782-1859 | 2nd Earl of Minto | statesman x Elliot | Gilbert | 1782-1859
Elliot | Sir | Gilbert | 1722-1777 | 3rd Baronet | statesman, philosopher and poet
Eliott | George Augustus | 1770-1790 | 1st Baron Heathfield | General
Elliot | Hugh | 1752-1830 | diplomat and colonial governor
Elliot | John | 1732-1808 | Admiral
Elliot | William | d 1811 | Lieutenant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

For individual biographies see the subfond descriptions.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Elliot family including:

Papers of Lord Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, comprising sixty-two volumes and covering the official correspondence of Lord Minto when he was Commissioner at Toulon and Viceroy of Corsica. In addition, there is an account of the attack and defence of Toulon, 1793, a journal for March 1794, a few loose papers and some correspondence between Elliot, Nelson and Lady Hamilton.

Papers of Lord Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Earl of Minto consisting of correspondence and papers covering the period when he was First Lord of the Admiralty. There are forty volumes of in-letters and some draft replies in his own hand including the letters from commanders connected with the events of the Carlist war, 1836 to 1841. There are also loose papers which consist of reports and memoranda and correspondence on a wide variety of naval topics. Further naval papers of the 2nd Earl form part of the Minto collection in the National Library of Scotland.

Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, content is mainly official and consists of account rolls of the Treasurer of the Chambers, 1762 to 1770, and an account made as Treasurer of the Navy, 1776 to 1777. There are some miscellaneous papers and a few letters, some personal and some official, relating to the settlement of Elliot's naval accounts. There are other papers relating to Elliot as Treasurer of the Navy and as Lord of the Admiralty in the National Library of Scotland.

Papers of George Eliott, consisting of three cases of orders and letters relating mainly to the siege of Gibraltar.

Papers of of Hugh Elliot consisting of diplomatic correspondence, 1803 to 1806, and contain sixty-two letters from Nelson (q.v.), together with drafts and copies of Elliot's replies and correspondence with Admiral Collingwood (q.v.). There are also intelligence reports and other material which throw light on the diplomacy of the Neapolitan Court.

Papers of Adm John Elliot, consisting only of one volume, containing a biographical note and seventy-two letters sent mostly by Elliot to his father or brother, 1745 to 1805. There are also letters received, including some from Lords Sandwich (q. v.) and Barham (q.v.). Also included is a description by Captain Erasmus Gower (q.v.) of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China in 1793 and another of the First of June, 1794.

Three logs kept by Willaim Elliot between 1803 and 1810.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers, part of the Minto collection, were purchased by Sir James Caird in 1941 from the Earl of Minto.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Accounting | Financial administration | Finance
Defence | State security
Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Naval affairs | Military affairs | Military science | Social sciences
Ships logs | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Siege warfare | Warfare | Military engineering

Personal names
Collingwood | Cuthbert | 1750-1810 | Vice-Admiral | 1st Baron Collingwood
Eliott | George Augustus | 1770-1790 | 1st Baron Heathfield | General
Elliot | Hugh | 1752-1830 | diplomat and colonial governor
Elliot | John | 1732-1808 | Admiral
Elliot | Sir | Gilbert | 1722-1777 | 3rd Baronet | statesman, philosopher and poet
Elliot | William | d 1811 | Lieutenant
Kynynmound | Gilbert Elliot Murray | 1751-1814 | 1st Earl of Minto | Governor General of India x Elliot | Gilbert | 1751-1814
Kynynmound | Gilbert Elliot Murray | 1782-1859 | 2nd Earl of Minto | statesman x Elliot | Gilbert | 1782-1859
Nelson | Horatio | 1758-1805 | 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe | Vice-Admiral

Corporate names
Admiralty
Royal Naval

Places
China | East Asia
Corsica | France | Western Europe | Europe
Gibraltar | Western Europe | Europe
Toulon | France | Western Europe | Europe