In 1907, under the name 'Ellova Gryn', Eliot published the parody
Too Weak, a play on
Elinor Glyn's
Three Weeks. Under the same name, he was also the author of the books
The Meanderings of Mary Ann, Reflections of Whiskerine,
The Vicissitudes of Acetylene,
The Nun and the Noodle, and
Over the Mud that parodied other of Glyn's books such as
The Vicissitudes of Evangeline. In 1918, Eliot bought
Ince Castle in Cornwall that had previously been owned by the
Earl of Buckinghamshire. He was married on 22 June 1910 to Helen Agnes Post (d. 1 September 1962), the daughter of Arthur Post of New York and his wife Elizabeth Wadsworth, a daughter of American General
James S. Wadsworth who married, as her second husband,
Lord Barrymore. They had a daughter and two sons: • Lady Germaine Elizabeth Olive Eliot (11 April 1911 – 1991) •
Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot, 9th Earl of St Germans (1914–1988) • (Montague) Robert Vere Eliot (29 October 1923 – 16 May 1994), contested
Mansfield as a Conservative in the
1959 general election. Eliot died on 19 September 1960 and his titles passed to his elder son, Nicholas Nicholas Richard Michael Eliot. ==References==