Nicholas Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans

Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans (26 January 1914, Marylebone, London – 11 March 1988),^[1] was a British peer.

Eliot was the son of Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans and Helen Agnes née Post. He was educated at Eton and 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.

Family

Lord St Germans married three times:

• On 25 April 1939 divorced 1947, to Helen Mary Villers (17 April 1915 ^[2] – 6 December 1951) with children:
  • Peregrine Nicholas Eliot (b. 2 January 1941)
  • 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 Wyndham, with 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,^[3] and his titles passed to his son, Peregrine Nicholas Eliot

References

External links

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