Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield

The Lord Heathfield
Lord Heathfield on horseback
Born31 December 1750
Died26 January 1813
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
RankGeneral

General Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Heathfield was a soldier who served as lieutenant-colonel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.[1] He largely demolished Nutwell, the family home, and built in its place a neo-classical house faced with tiles imitating Portland stone, an undertaking which he completed c.1800.[2]

He was colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1810 until his death in 1813[3] and served as a lord of the bedchamber under George IV from 1812 until his death.[4] He did not marry, had no children and the barony became extinct when he died.[5] Heathfield's library was sold at auction by Leigh & Sotheby in London on 17 March 1814 (and five following days).[6]

References

  1. ^ Brydges, Sir Egerton (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. 8. Arthur Collins. p. 125.
  2. ^ Swete, p.149
  3. ^ "1st King's Dragoon Guards". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Aspinall, Arthur (1938). "The Letters of King George IV". Cambridge University Press. p. 262.
  5. ^ Burke, John-Bernard (1846). "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland". Henry Colburn. p. 189.
  6. ^ A copy of the catalogue is at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(9)).

Sources

  • Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999
Military offices
Preceded by Colonel of the 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards
1810–1813 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Heathfield
1790–1813 		Extinct