William Elliot [The Castle Spectre]

(1766-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Elliot William (1766-1818) MP Chief Secretary for Ireland LBT ID: WiEllio1818	B/BAP: 1766-03-12 DIED: 1818-10-26
SOURCES: Gilbert Elliot Minto, Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto (1874) 1:107n; Wikipedia
Born in Wells, Roxburghshire, he was an Irish politician and friend of Edmund Burke who after the Union was a Whig MP for Portarlington and Peterborough.
REFERENCES TO William Elliot [The Castle Spectre]: Henry Grey Bennet to Thomas Creevey, 3 April 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 27 January 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch X: 1814-15 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818 Found 1: ¶ n1