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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, Scottish soldier and Governor of Gibraltar, (1870). Eliott (1717-1790) played a prominent role in withstanding the Franco-Spanish siege of Gibraltar in 1779-1783, for which he was knighted. He was created Baron Heathfield in 1787. An engraving from Robert Chambers' A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Blackie and Son, (Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, 1870).