George Elliott

Surgeon

1636 – 1668

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Who was George Elliott?

George Elliott was the English surgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment.

Elliott was the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot, the wayward second son of Sir John Eliot and of Catherine Killigrew. George Eliott's grandson Granville Elliott spent much effort in seeking to prove that Richard had married Catherine Killigrew, but he was never able to do so formally. Indeed, visitations survive showing that Richard died a bachelor and her mother's probate documents showing that Catherine was a spinster, aged 38, on 24 December 1656.

Little is known of Elliott's early years, but on 18 January 1654 he married Katherine Maxwell at St Olave Silver Street in the City of London. By 4 May 1663, around the time of the baptism of his second daughter in London, he was recognized as 'Doctor' to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment. He reappeared at the Tangier Garrison in Morocco in May 1664 as the 'Chirurgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment at Tangier', where he lived at the Mole, a waterside fortification.

In 1668, Elliott died at Tangier, where he was succeeded as Chirurgeon by his assistant, Robert Spotswood, who also married Elliott's widow.

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1636
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1668
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on July 23, 2013

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