In 1988, on the death of his grandfather, he became styled
Lord Eliot. He was educated at
Millfield School. and Pow Wow. He returned to Cornwall in the mid-1990s and in 2002 founded the
Port Eliot Literature Festival, an annual event held in the grounds of the house. He also began to develop strategies to ensure Port Eliot would continue to be a vibrant cultural laboratory, building on the legend of the
Elephant Fayre and helping define the ethos of the Port Eliot Literary Festival, through conversations with friends such as
Tom Hodgkinson of
the Idler magazine. His passion for the arts saw him also involved with the A Foundation, through his Literati project and i-DAT with the A Conversation at Port Eliot in 2006. This was the first in a proposed series on emerging ideas in art, science and technology organised by Jago Eliot and The Institute of Digital Art and Technology at the
University of Plymouth. The themes for this seminar were 'art and irrationality' and 'a geography of the immaterial'. ==Marriage & children==