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Nathaniel Elliot

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1811

Biography

London West India merchant, partner in a predecessor firm of Wilkinson & Gavillier (formerly Nelson & Adam) until 1798. His will shows him to have made the transition from mercantile activity to rentier status.

  1. Will of Nathaniel Elliot [late of Hackney but now] of Exeter [made in 1808] proved 07/11/1811. He placed the estate named (by him) Longbrook in West Alvington, that he had formed through at least two separate land purchases, in trust for his minor son Nathaniel (born in 1799) subject to annuities of £20 p.a to his brother and £50 p.a. to his wife Sarah. He left £5000 in trust, 2/3rd of the interest from which was to go to Sarah and 1/3rd to support Nathaniel. He left Sarah the use of his house at St Sidwell Exeter for life, in a codicil of 1811 substituting his house at Kingsbridge after he had sold the house at St Sidwell.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1527/68.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Partner
Nelson & Adam
West India merchant  
 
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Physical (1)

Estate
Longbrook [Purchased] 
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By his own account given in his will, Nathaniel Elliot had built up the Longbrook estate at West Alvington through the purchase of the original estate from the executors of Jame Worden and a second...

Relationships (2)

Nathaniel Elliot
Business partners
John William Adam
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Nathaniel Elliot
Business partners
Josiah Walley
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Addresses (3)

Hackney, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Formerly of Hackney when he made his will in 1808

St Sidwell, Exeter, Devon, Devon & Cornwall, England
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Nathaniel Elliot had sold his house at St Sidwell by 1811 when he made a codicil to his will referring to the sale.

Longbrook, West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devo, Devon & Cornwall, England
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