Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield

General Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior British Army officer.

The Lord Heathfield
Lord Heathfield on horseback
Born	31 December 1750
Died	26 January 1813
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General

Military career

Heathfield was a soldier who served as lieutenant-colonel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.[1] He largely demolished Nutwell, the family home, and built in its place a neo-classical house faced with tiles imitating Portland stone, an undertaking which he completed c.1800.[2]

He was colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1810 until his death in 1813[3] and served as a lord of the bedchamber under George IV from 1812 until his death.[4] He did not marry, had no children and the barony became extinct when he died.[5]

References

1. Brydges, Sir Egerton (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. 8. Arthur Collins. p. 125.
2. Swete, p.149
3. "1st King's Dragoon Guards". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
4. Aspinall, Arthur (1938). "The Letters of King George IV". Cambridge University Press. p. 262.
5. Burke, John-Bernard (1846). "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland". Henry Colburn. p. 189.

Sources

• Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999

Military offices
Preceded by Sir William Pitt	Colonel of the 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards 1810–1813	Succeeded by Sir David Dundas
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by George Augustus Eliott	Baron Heathfield 1790–1813	Succeeded by Extinct