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. | |