Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield explained

The Lord Heathfield
Birth Date:	31 December 1750
Death Date:	26 January 1813
Allegiance:	United Kingdom
Rank:	General
Branch:	British Army

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]

Sources

• Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999

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Notes and References

1. Book: Brydges, Sir Egerton . Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. 8. 125. Arthur Collins. 1812.
2. Swete, p.149
3. Web site: 1st King's Dragoon Guards . Regiments.org . 26 July 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20060110003444/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/DG1kdg.htm . 10 January 2006 .
4. Web site: The Letters of King George IV. 2. Arthur. Aspinall. 262. 1938. Cambridge University Press.
5. Web site: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland. John-Bernard. Burke. 189. 1846. Henry Colburn.
6. A copy of the catalogue is at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(9)).