Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Elliot, Gilbert

by Joseph Foster

Elliot, Gilbert, s. Gilbert, of Edinburgh, baronet. Christ Church, matric. 9 Nov., 1768, aged 17; created M.A. 16 July, 1772, and also D.C.L. 4 July, 1793, created Earl of Minto 24 Feb., 1813, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1774, M.P. Morpeth 1776-7, co. Roxburgh 1777-84, Berwick-upon-Tweed 1786-90, Helston 1790-5, governor-general Bengal 1807-13, etc., died 21 June 1814, buried in Westminster Abbey. See Foster's Peerage.