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to the. Ringdove 16, Capt. Sir Wm. Daniell, lying at Portsmouth – 1 July, 1843, to the Resistance 42, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey, employed on Particular Service – 10 Feb. 1845, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Commodore Wm. Jones – and, 26 Dec. 1845, to the Wasp 16, Capt. Sidney Henry Ussher, in which sloop he returned home and was paid off towards the close of 1846. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
ELLIOT, C.B., F.R.S. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1837. f-p., 26; h-p., 27.)
The Honourable George Elliot, born 1 Aug. 1784, is second son of Gilbert, first Earl of Minto (who at different periods filled the important posts of Governor of Corsica, Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Vienna, President of the Board of Control, and Governor-General of Bengal), by Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir Geo. Amyand, Bart.; brother of the present Earl of Minto; brother-in-law of the late Lieut.-General Sir Rufane Shawe Donkin, K.C.B., G.C.H., and of the present Sir John Peter Boileau, Bart.; and uncle of Capt. Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 June, 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capt. Thos. Foley, with whom he served the whole of his time in that ship, and in the Britannia 100, and Goliah and Elephant 74’s. The St. George, during that period, bore the flag of Sir Hyde Parker in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795, and the Britannia of Sir Chas. Thompson in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. The Goliath, on the glorious 1 Aug. 1798, had the honour of leading the British fleet into action. Mr. Elliot, who obtained his first commission 12 Aug. 1800, next served for short periods in the Kangaroo sloop, Capt. Geo. Christopher Pulling, and in the San Josef and St. George, flag-ships of Lord Nelson and Sir Chas. Morice Pole, in the latter of which, under Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy, he witnessed the action off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Attaining the rank of Commander, 14 April, 1802, he was appointed, in 1803, to the Termagant sloop, in the Mediterranean, where we find him posted, 2 Jan. 1804, into the Maidstone 32. Until the conclusion of the war, in 1814, Capt. Elliot’s subsequent appointments were – 23 Feb. and 10 July, 1805, to the Combatant 20, and Aurora 28, employed in the Downs and Mediterranean – and 29 Oct. 1806, and 17 Aug. 1812, to the Modeste 36, and Hussar 38, both on the East India station. In Oct. 1808, he captured La Jena, French national corvette, of 18 guns and 150 men, after a running action of nearly an hour, in which the Modeste had her Master killed and one seaman wounded;[1] and in the summer of 1805 he commanded the Aurora in an action of three hours with some Spanish gun-boats near Tarifa, three of which he captured. At the reduction of Java, in Aug. 1811, Capt. Elliot superintended the landing of the troops;[2] and, in June, 1813, he joined in a serious attack on the pirates of Sambas, in Borneo. He subsequently assisted Colonel Macgregor in re-installing the Sultan of Palambang, and received the thanks of his Commander-in-Chief for the judicious and excellent arrangements made by him on that occasion. Capt. Elliot, whose next appointment was, 30 April, 1827, to the Victory 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, the command of which he retained during the usual period of three years, assumed Flag-rank 10 Jan. 1837, and on 25 Sept. following was nominated Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. Being transferred, 15 Feb. 1840, to the chief command in the East Indies, the Rear-Admiral sailed for China, where, in the additional capacity of Joint-Plenipotentiary with Capt. Chas. Elliot, R.N., he superintended the earlier operations of the war, from 7 July to 30 Nov. in the same year. He then invalided home on board the Volage 26, and, since 1841, has been on half-pay.
Rear-Admiral Elliot is General of the Mint in Scotland. He was nominated a Naval Aide-de-camp to William IV. 4 Aug. 1830, and a C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. From 24 Dec. 1834, until April, 1835, he filled the office of First Secretary to the Admiralty, and, from the latter date until his appointment to the chief command at the Cape, that of a Lord at the same Board. He married, in 1810, Eliza Cecilia, youngest daughter of Jas. Ness, Esq., of Osgodvie, co. York, and has had issue five sons and five daughters. Of the former, George, the eldest, is a Capt. R.N., and the second, Gilbert George, an officer in the 47th Regt. The third son, Horatio Foley, died a Lieutenant R.N., as we have recorded in the proper place. The Rear-Admiral’s two eldest daughters are respectively married, the one to the Earl of Northesk, and the other to Commander Lord Wm. Compton, R.N. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
ELLIOT. (Captain, 1840. f-p., 17; h-p., 3.)
George Elliot is eldest son of Rear-Admiral Hon. Geo. Elliot, C.B. This ofilcer entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1827; obtained his first commission 12 Nov. 1834; and afterwards served for upwards of three years in South America on board the Astraea 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 15 Jan. 1838; and, being appointed, 29 May following, to the Columbine 16, sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he was ultimately ordered to India. Capt. Elliot, whose Post-commission hears date 3 June, 1840, returned to England with his father, as Acting-Captain of the Volage 26, in 1841. He further, from 7 June, 1843, until 1846, commanded the Eurydice 26, on the North America and West India station. At present he is unemployed.
He married, 1 Aug. 1842, Hersey Susan Sidney, only daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Wauchope, of Niddrie Marischall, co. Mid-Lothian, and niece of Sir David Baird, Bart., by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
ELLIOT. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 9; h-p., 0.)
Horatio Foley Elliot died in 1845. He was third son of Rear-Admiral Hon. Geo. Elliot, C.B. This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 12 Oct. 1836; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1842. His appointments appear to have been – 22 Feb. 1842, to the Carysfort 26, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, on the South American station – 18 July, 1843, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies – and, 24 Jan. 1844, to the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke, with whom he served on the coast of Africa until the period of his death.
ELLIOT. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 25; h-p., 41.)
Robert Elliot, born in Oct. 1767, in Roxburghshire, is brother of Major-General Henry Elliot.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1781, on board the Dunkirk, Capt. Millingan, bearing the flag of Admiral Milbanke at Plymouth; and, from 1782 until the breaking out of the French revolutionary war, was employed, on the North American and Home stations, in the Diomede 44, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, Thisbe, Capt. Geo. Robertson, Edgar 74, Capt. Adam Duncan, Hector 74, Capt. Sir John Collins, Edgar again, Capt. C. Thompson, Robust 74, Capt. Geo. Keith Elphinstone, Bellerophon 74, Capt. Thos. Pasley, and Diomede, Capt. Matthew Smith. On 13 July, 1793, having passed his examination in 1788, we find him promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Savage, Capt. G. Wentworth; after two years’ servitude in which sloop, on the Downs station, he became First of the Greyhound 32, Capts. Paget, Bailey, and Young. Assuming command, 26 Dec. 1796, of the Plymouth hired armed-lugger, Mr. Elliot, in March, 1797, took (and was officially reported for his great
