The Rise of the Elliots of Minto: A Scottish Family’s Life in the Eightenth Century

An account of the Elliot family through three baronetcies and one earldom, spanning six generations and a cast in the hundreds. As the Scottish Enlightenment dawns, the second bsronet inherits the Minto estate in Roxburghshire. His descendants include a politician, a literary patron, an admiral, an army captain, a governor of New York and a poetess. The story of this familt takes the reader across the eighteenth-century world: from Britiain to India to the fledgling United States. This book also provides a warm and perceptive glimpse of an aristocratic but far from family. The account also lets the reader understand a time when adventure and death were partners at all levels of society.