* Daiches, David, George Eliot: Middlemarch, London, Edward Arnold, 1963.

One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.

Edward James Eliot, oldest son of the 1st Baron Eliot, in 1785 ; one child.

** Edward James Eliot, English politician ( d. 1797 )

* Edward James Eliot ( 1758 – 97 ), parliamentarian

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

There was much discussion about the names adopted for most of the colleges with the following alternative names all in consideration at one point or another: for Eliot: Caxton, after William Caxton ; for Keynes: Richborough, a town in Kent ; Anselm, a former Archbishop of Canterbury ; and for Darwin: Anselm ( again ); Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister ; Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop ( this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the Senate ); Conrad ; Elgar, after Edward Elgar ; Maitland ; Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe ; Russell, after Bertrand Russell ( this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council ); Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and Tyler Hill on which the campus stands.

The massive statue in the foreground was a gift to the University by its sculptor Sir Edward Paolozzi-the sculpture is named ' Faraday ', and has an excerpt from the poem ' The Dry Salvages ' by T. S. Eliot around its base.

* The opening of the Eliot Cottage Hospital, later King Edward VII Eliot Memorial Hospital, in 1906, named after benefactor, Alice Annie Eliot ( 1864 – 1904 )

Throughout the Academy ’ s history, 10, 000 fellows have been elected, including such notables as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Duke Ellington.

Harriot married firstly in 1726 Richard Eliot, having nine children including Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and secondly in 1749 to John Hamilton by whom she had a son.

Their children included James Craggs the Younger, and Anne Craggs, wife of Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Elizabeth wife of Edward Eliot and Margaret wife, firstly of Samuel Trefusis and secondly of Sir John Hinde Cotton.

John and William were the second and third sons respectively of Edward Eliot, who represented St Germans, Liskeard and Cornwall in the House of Commons and served as a commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations.

Lord Eliot's second but eldest surviving son, Edward James Eliot, predeceased him, and he was succeeded by his third son, the aforementioned first Earl of St Germans.

* Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot ( 1727 – 1804 )

Edward James Eliot ( 1758 – 1797 )

* Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans ( 1798 – 1877 )

** Edward Henry John Cornwallis Eliot, Lord Eliot ( 1885 – 1909 )

Prince Edward Island celebrates Arbour Day on the 3rd Friday in May during Arbour Week.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

* 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

* 1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey ( d. 1723 )

David Edward Sutch ( 10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999 ), also known as " Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow ", or simply " Screaming Lord Sutch ", was a musician from the United Kingdom.

* November 28 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey ( d. 1723 )

* November 26 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1947 )

* May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

* May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ( executed ) ( b. 1478 )

* March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey ( b. 1661 )

** Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake, sister-in-law of King Edward II of England and mother-in-law of Edward, the Black Prince

* February 3 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham ( d. 1521 )

* April 14 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland ( b. 1548 )

* July 12 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland ( d. 1587 )

Edward of York was born at Rouen in France, the second child of Richard, 3rd Duke of York ( who had a strong genealogical claim to the throne of England ), and Cecily Neville.

Although Henry was descended from King Edward III, his claim to the throne was weak, due to the clause barring ascension to the throne by any heirs of the legitimized offspring of his great-great-grandparents, John of Gaunt ( 3rd son of King Edward III ) and Katherine Swynford.

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick, KG ( 21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478 ) was the third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of kings Edward IV and Richard III.

These included Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, and Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland.

One of the latter branch, Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 ), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and Edward VII.

* Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 )

* Lady Cecily Neville ( 1415 – 1495 ) (" Proud Cis "), married Richard, 3rd Duke of York and mothered Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England

She was a daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two Kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III.