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Edinburgh University. University of Utrecht. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, (of Minto) (September 1722 – 11 February 1777) was born at Minto, Roxburghshire, and was a Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet.
- Agnes Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, PC, FRSE ( / kɪˈnɪnmənd /; [1] 23 April 1751 – 21 June 1814), known as Sir Gilbert Elliott, 4th Baronet until 1797, and the Lord Minto from 1797 to 1813, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1776 and 1795.
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- Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, Agnes Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound
ELLIOT, Gilbert (1722-77), of Minto, Roxburgh. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Elliot baronets, of Minto (1650–1797) Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet (c. 1650–1718) Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (c. 1693–1766) Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722–1777) Sir Gilbert Elliot, 4th Baronet (1751–1814) (created Baron Minto in 1797) Baron Minto (1797–1813)
- Gilbert Francis Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund
- Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
- Viscount Melgund, Baron Minto, Baronet ‘of Headshaw’
- Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto
Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
This section consists of the personal, political and official correspondence and papers of the Elliots of Minto up to and including the 3rd Baronet, but chiefly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), and of his son Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777).
Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto was a politician and literary patron from Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. Elliot was a close friend of the philosopher David Hume . However, as an elder of the Church of Scotland, Elliot was critical of Hume’s religious scepticism and advised his friend against publishing some of his more controversial works.
