William Eliot (MP)

Sir William Eliot (1586 – 7 December 1650) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

Eliot was the son of Lawrence Eliot of Busbridge, Surrey. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 15 October 1602 aged 15. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1605.[1] He inherited the estate at Busbridge in 1618[2] and was knighted on 1 February 1621.[3]

In April 1640, Eliot was elected Member of Parliament for Haslemere in the Short Parliament.[4]

Eliot died in 1650 at the age of 64.

Eliot married Joan and had a son William.[2]

References
  1. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Eade-Eyton', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 440–479. Date accessed: 1 March 2011
  2. 'Parishes: Hambledon', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 42–44. Date accessed: 2 March 2011
  3. Knights of England
  4. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
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