Elliot, Mrs

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20.10.1790 mrs Elliot at Miss Williams / 30.5.1794 sup at Ritson's; mrs Eliot

Boyle's 1792 Mrs E 40 Queen St East / Mrs E Lincolns Inn Fields / Mrs E 4 Portugal St.

PerhapsThomasine Anne Elliott born 1759 daughter of rear admiral George Elliott of Copford Essex (PCC will 1795) sister of Rev Luther Graves Elliott 1770-1846, died unmarried 1.4.1835 Honiton, Devon (PCC will 1835). Luther Graves E and Miss E of Colchester both subscribed to HMWilliams Poems 1786, but she is best identified by Mrs Piozzi's and Joanna Baillie's letters (both online). But as she was only thirty it seems unlikely Godwin would have described her as Mrs, which was often used for older spinsters

Mrs E at Ritson's was unlikely to have been the celebrated courtesan Mrs Elliot (Miss Dalrymple, Dally the Tall) as she was in prison in Versailles till October 1794. Another Mrs Elliot appeared in Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies 1793 at 24 Pitt Street at which address Mary Elliot spinster was insured Sun Fire 1793. According to Harris's List she was the only child of an eminent London tradesman who eloped with an officer and was abandoned, and having shifted her keepers and lodgings many times "she now is at free liberty to trade upon her own bottom".. Joseph Ritson DNB 1752-1803 was a bachelor and perhaps somewhat eccentric