Eliot, John

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
Place of birth		Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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