Daniel Eliot

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Daniel Eliot (1646–1702) of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornwall was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for St Germans from 1679 until 1700 and April to December 1701.Henning, Basil Duke,The House of Commons 1660–1690, Volume 1, Secker & Warburg, London, 1983

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Born at Port Eliot in 1646, he was the son of John Eliot and Honora Norton. His younger brother Richard (1652–1685) was also a member of parliament for St Germans. Eliot attended Christ's College at Cambridge.Cherry, George L.,The Convention Parliament, 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members, Bookman Associates Inc., New York, 1966 Following his father's death in 1685 he inherited Port Eliot and married Katherine Fleming. They had a daughter Katherine (died 1724) who married Browne Willis in 1707.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Willis, Browne|last=Courtney|first=William Prideaux|volume=62}}

He left Port Eliot to his cousin Edward Eliot, MP.

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