Eliot was the son of Lawrence Eliot of Busbridge, Surrey. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 15 October 1602 aged 15. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1605. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Eade-Eyton', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 440-479. Date accessed: 1 March 2011 He inherited the estate at Busbridge in 1618 'Parishes: Hambledon', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 42-44. Date accessed: 2 March 2011 and was knighted on 1 February 1621.Knights of England
