Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans

Born at 2, Wyndham Place, Marylebone, London,[1] Eliot was the son of Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans and Helen Agnes, daughter of Arthur Post, of New York, U.S.A.[2] He was educated at Eton.

Eliot became a Captain in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, attached to the Royal Armoured Corps. He was a Justice of the Peace and DL.

On 16 September 1960, he succeeded his father to become the 9th Earl of St Germans.

Lord St Germans married three times:

• On 25 April 1939 (divorced 1947) to Helen Mary (17 April 1915 – 6 December 1951), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Walter Villiers, DSO, CBE, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (a descendant of the politician and diplomat Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon – himself son of the 2nd Earl of Jersey – and of the politician John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon), and Lady Kathleen Mary, daughter of Lowry Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen.[3] Their children were:
  • Peregrine Nicholas Eliot (b. 2 January 1941, d. 15 July 2016)
  • Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot (6 March 1943 – 6 January 2004) who was married 9 October 1965 (div 1987) to Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne.
• On 27 May 1948 (divorced 1959) to Margaret Eleanor, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis George Wyndham, of Heathfield Lodge (great-grandson of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont and a descendant also of the Lords Polwarth) and Maud Eleanor, daughter of William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe, of Heath House, Petersfield, Hampshire (son of the politician William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton);[4] they had no issue
• In 1965, to Mary Bridget Thomas, daughter of colonial Governor Sir Shenton Thomas, with no issue.

Lord St Germans died on 11 March 1988 in Tangiers, Morocco,[5] and his titles passed to his son, Peregrine Nicholas Eliot

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of St Germans