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English: ELDON, JOHN SCOTT, 1ST EARL OF ELDON (1751-1838)

6 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 3RA

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"1838 January 13. Died, at his house in Hamilton Place, London, in his 87th year, John Scott, earl of Eldon, high steward of the university of Oxford, a governor of the Charter House, and a member of the Privy Council, D.C.L., F.R.S., and F.S.A.

The deceased was the youngest son of William Scott, a respectable coalfitter and merchant in Newcastle, and was born in his father's residence in Love Lane on the 4th of June, 1751, the anniversary of the birth of George the Third.

John, like his brother William, was educated at the grammar school at Newcastle, but at an early age he quitted it for the university of Oxford. In 1767 he was elected a fellow of University College, and in 1771 he gained the chancellor's prize for an English Essay " On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Travel."

Shortly after this he married. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Aubone Surtees, esq., a banker at Newcastle. The match was a runaway one, and the lady was carried off from one of the upper windows of her father's house, on the Sandhill, Newcastle, yet unlike most matches imprudently formed it was productive of the greatest connubial happiness during a period of many years.”