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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.
Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs (c. 1680 – 27 May 1764) was a Scottish Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1727. He was outlawed after killing his opponent in an after-dinner argument and fight, but was subsequently pardoned.
It was created on 3 December 1666 for Gilbert Eliott. The second baronet was a member of the pre-union Parliament of Scotland. The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire. The Eliott Baronets share a common early Elliot ancestry with the nearby Earls of Minto (Elliot).
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.
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.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777), was both a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and an active politician at Westminster.
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).
