Re: General Elliott: the General Eliott (as his branch of the family came to spell it) who defended Gibraltar was the first, not the second, Lord Heathfield, General George Augustus Eliott. Francis Augustus was his son, and a friend of the Prince of Wales, later George IV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Augustus_Eliott,_1st_Baron_Heathfi eld