Sir John Elliott

The Recess is dedicated to Sir John Eliot, Elliot, or Elliott , a Scottish physician who was successful and popular in London. (His wife, Grace, née Dalrymple , had left him for another man, and...

Grace Dalrymple , still in her teens, was married at St Pancras church, London, to John Elliott or Eliot (later Sir John), a wealthy, successful Scottish physician older than her father, and himself the...

GE 's husband tracked her and her lover, Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia , to their rendezvous at a bagnio. He then found compromising letters between them, and threw her out early the next month, sending...