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    General George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, KB, PC (25 December 1717 – 6 July 1790) was a Scottish officer of the British Army, who served in...
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    Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created on 6 July 1787 for General Sir George Augustus Eliott in recognition...
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  • Heathfield may refer to: Heathfield, South Australia Heathfield railway station, Adelaide Heathfield, Cape Town, a suburb Heathfield, Cambridgeshire Heathfield...
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    Heathfield is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Heathfield and Waldron, in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The...
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    Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior British Army officer. Heathfield was a soldier who served...
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    Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield, the son of his sister Anne Pollexfen Drake and her husband, George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield. "DRAKE, Sir Francis...
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  • Augustus Eliott, (1717–1790), the defender of Gibraltar, being made 1st Baron Heathfield, which is in Sussex, although he died childless. Robert Bell in The...
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    Augustus Elliott, 1st Baron Heathfield in 1748. In 1802, the Lord of the Manorship was formally bought by the 2nd Baron Heathfield. He was succeeded by...
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    their south. Elliot was made a Knight of the Bath and was created 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar. Four British regiments engaged in the defence were granted...
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  • Heathfield (born 1967), British Anglican priest Tom Heathfield, British cricketer Baron Heathfield, British title, created in 1787 Thomas Heathfield Carrick...
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    regiment was raised in the London area by George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield as Elliots Light Horse as the first of the new regiments of light dragoons...
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  • Born Thomas Fuller, he was a grandson of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, and grand-nephew of the last Drake Baronet of Buckland, and adopted...
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  • British Garrison. The garrison, led by George Augustus Eliott, later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, survived all attacks and a blockade of supplies. 1782...
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  • Eliott, victor of the Great Siege of Gibraltar, was created Lord Heathfield, Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar in 1787. Admiral Adam Duncan, victor of the Battle...
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    (1870—1949) General Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield General George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1717—1790) Brigadier Algernon George William...
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  • (1850–1938), British Army lieutenant general Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (1750–1813), British Army general Frank Worth Elliott Jr. (1924–1997)...
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    defeated Spanish sailors by the British. General Eliott, created Lord Heathfield in 1787, was also portrayed by Sir Joshua Reynolds (link), currently in...
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    British garrison. The garrison, led by George Augustus Eliott (later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar), survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies. July...
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    Joshua Reynolds, Baron Heathfield, Lord Warden of Gibraltar, 18th century...
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    contrived to differentiate the branches. George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield was the tenth son of the third Baronet. Sir Gilbert Eliott, 1st Baronet...
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    William Augustus Pitt, KB 1810–1813: Gen. Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield 1813–1820: Gen. Sir David Dundas, GCB 1820–1821: Gen. Francis Edward...
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    l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736) July 6 – George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, British army officer (b. 1717) July 7 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch...
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    the hero of Gibraltar George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1717-1790). The 2nd Baron Heathfield largely pulled down the old house and built in its...
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    of the fourth baronet was the wife of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, the defender of Gibraltar, and their descendants ultimately inherited...
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    General Don had commissioned a memorial of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, in 1815, which did not materialise in the form initially requested...
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    (1783) Portrait of Lord Mansfield, (1783) George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1787) Earl of Bessborough, 1790 Colonel George Lewis (1794) Henry...
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    English writer (d. 1806) December 25 – George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, British army officer (d. 1790) December 27 – Pope Pius VI, born Count...
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    Baron Heathfield, who was the son of the governor of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary Wars, George Augustus Elliot, 1st Baron Heathfield....
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    Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs. George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield was his nephew. The marriage helped bring this branch of the family...
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    William Eliott, 2nd Baronet, and aunt of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield. Decimus was descended from John Haliburton (1573–1627), from whom...
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