ELLIOT, JANE (or JEAN) (1727-1805), poet, daughter of Sir G. Elliot, end baronet of Miabo, was born at Minto House, Teviotdale, in 1727. By her courage and wit she saved her father from the Jacobites in 1745 ; but she is best known for her beauti ful ballad "The Flowers of the Forest," which is said to have been written as the result of a wager with her brother, Gilbert Elliot, also an author. No other poems by Jane Elliot are known. She died on March 29, 1805.