John Eliot (died 1685)

He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at Lincoln College, Oxford.

He travelled in France in 1631 and 1632 and succeeded to an estate of £1,500 per annum on the death of his father in 1632.

[2] He played little part in the English Civil War but was on the County Committee in 1644.

He was voted £7,000 compensation by the Long Parliament in 1647 for damage to his estates caused by the Royalists.

[3] Eliot died at the age of 72 and was buried at St Germans on 25 March 1685.