I suspect that the General Eliott is named instead for General George Augustus Eliott (especially since that spelling of the surname belonged to his branch of the Elliot/Eliott/Eliot families). General Eliott was governor of Gibraltar during the famous Franco-Spanish siege of 1779-83, and was later raised to the peerage as Lord Heathfield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Augustus_Eliott,_1st_Baron_Heathfi eld