William Eliot

William Eliot may refer to:

  • William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–1887), American educator, Unitarian clergyman, and founder of Washington University
  • William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans (1767–1845), British diplomat and politician
  • William Eliot, 4th Earl of St Germans (1829–1881), British diplomat and Liberal politician

Famous quotes containing the words william and/or eliot:

    “I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)