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|Dates=1760s?-1786
|Location=London
|Vocation=Physician
|Place of Birth=Edinburgh or Peebles
|Marriage=Grace Dalrymple (divorced 1776)
|Issue=1 child; Illegitimate children - John, Ann, Mary & Marianne
|Source=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Educated in Edinburgh, France and Netherlands. Eliot was apprenticed to a surgeon in London. He sailed first as a surgeon’s mate then as a surgeon to a privateer whereby he used the money to set up a practice in London.
Eliot graduated MD at the University of St Andrews in 1759 and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1762.
Sir William Duncan transferred practice/patients to Eliot.
He was knighted in 1776 and in 1778 was appointed physician to the prince of Wales. Eliot died in 1786 while on a visit to his friend Lord Melbourne at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire where he is buried in the Melbourne family vault in the parish church of Bishop's Hatfield

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