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|death_date=26 January 1813
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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield''' (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior [[British Army]] officer.
==Military career==
Heathfield was a soldier who served as [[lieutenant-colonel]] of the [[6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rRMwAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Francis+Augustus+Eliott%22+general&pg=PA125|title=Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical|volume=8|first= Sir Egerton |last=Brydges|page=125|publisher=Arthur Collins|year=1812}}</ref> 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.<ref>Swete, p.149</ref>
He was colonel of the [[1st King's Dragoon Guards]] from 1810 until his death in 1813<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/DG1kdg.htm |title=1st King's Dragoon Guards |publisher=Regiments.org |accessdate=26 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110003444/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/DG1kdg.htm |archivedate=10 January 2006 }}</ref> and served as a lord of the bedchamber under [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]] from 1812 until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whU9AAAAIAAJ&q=Francis+Augustus+Eliott%2C+Second+Baron+Heathfield&pg=PA262|title=The Letters of King George IV|volume=2|first=Arthur|last= Aspinall|page=262|year=1938|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> He did not marry, had no children and the barony became extinct when he died.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aU9jAAAAcAAJ&q=Francis+Augustus+Eliott%2C+Second+Baron+Heathfield&pg=PA189|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland|first=John-Bernard|last= Burke|page=189|year=1846|publisher=Henry Colburn}}</ref> Heathfield's library was sold at auction by Leigh & Sotheby in London on 17 March 1814 (and five following days).<ref>A copy of the catalogue is at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.162(9)).</ref>
==References==
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==Sources==
*Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999
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