| Gilbert Eliott | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | |
| Office1: | Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 22 May 1860 |
| Term End1: | 13 July 1870 |
| Predecessor1: | New title |
| Successor1: | Arthur Macalister |
| Constituency1: | Wide Bay |
| Constituency Am2: | Burnett |
| Assembly2: | New South Wales Legislative |
| Term Start2: | 5 July 1859 |
| Term End2: | 10 December 1859 |
| Predecessor2: | New seat |
| Successor2: | Seat abolished |
| Constituency Am3: | Wide Bay |
| Assembly3: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start3: | 4 May 1860 |
| Term End3: | 12 August 1870 |
| Predecessor3: | New seat |
| Successor3: | Henry King |
| Office4: | Member of the Queensland Legislative Council |
| Term Start4: | 15 November 1870 |
| Term End4: | 30 June 1871 |
| Birth Date: | 1796 |
| Birth Place: | Stobs Castle, Roxburghshire, England |
| Death Date: | 30 June 1871 |
| Death Place: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
| Restingplace: | Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery |
| Birthname: | Gilbert Eliott |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Spouse: | Isabella Lucy Elliot |
| Occupation: | Grazier, Magistrate |
| Relations: | Sir William Eliott, 6th Baronet (father) |
Gilbert Eliott (1796 – 30 June 1871), was a politician in colonial Queensland and a Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Eliot was third son of Sir William Eliott, the 6th Bart. of that name, of Stobs, Roxburghshire. He was born in 1796, and married, in 1830, Isabella Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Robert Eliott, vicar of Askham (who died in 1871).
Eliott emigrated to Australia, and was appointed a police magistrate at Parramatta in June 1842. He became chief of the three commissioners of the city of Sydney in January 1842.
in July 1859 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Burnett but had only served 5 months when the Colony of Queensland was created and his seat became redundant.[1] He was then elected to the first Queensland Legislative Assembly in April 1860, as member for Wide Bay. On the meeting of the House in May he was elected the first Speaker, and, having been thrice successively re-elected in the next three Parliaments, voluntarily retired in Nov. 1870, when he was created C.M.G.
Eliott died on 30 June 1871 and was buried in Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery.[2]
Eliott's eldest son, Gilbert William, was a police magistrate in Queensland from 1865 to 1878; and, by his marriage with Jane Penelope, daughter of Thomas Thomson, of Tasmania, had a son, Gilbert Francis Eliott, born in 1859, who was Engineer of Harbours and Rivers for Northern Queensland.