Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans

Henry was educated at Eton College from 1845 to 1847, and served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea from 1848 to 1853.

He was appointed as a Junior Clerk in the Foreign Office on 28 January 1855, where he worked until he succeeded to the Peerage in 1881.

In July 1867, he was Secretary to a special mission of Earl Vane to St Petersburg to invest the Emperor of Russia with the Order of the Garter.

In the 1881 Census, he was living at 13 Grosvenor Gardens, St George Hanover Square, London[1] Henry married on 18 October 1881 at the Chapel Royal, Savoy Street, London to Emily Harriett Labouchere (24 June 1844 – 18 October 1933), the daughter of Henry Labouchere, the first and last Baron Taunton.

They had two sons: Henry died on 24 September 1911 at Port Eliot, Cornwall and is buried at St Germans Church.