'''Daniel Eliason''' (b. ca. {{circa|1753}} - d. 17 November 1824)<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18241122/016/0004 |newspaper=Evening Mail |location=England |date=22 November 1824 |access-date=14 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> was a [[London]] [[diamond]] merchant in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
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It was reported in 1822 that a violet-coloured diamond had been purchased by [[George IV]] for £20,000 ({{Inflation|UK|20000|1822|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} and that Mr. Eliason of Hatton Garden was setting it.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=It is reported |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18220315/005/0002 |newspaper=Evening Mail |location=England |date=15 March 1822 |access-date=15 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
His death was reported in the ''New Times (London)'' on 19 December with the following short obituary:<{{blockquote>|Died yesterday, at his house in Hatton-garden, Daniel Eliason, Esq., the eminent diamond merchant, in the 71st year of his age. This gentleman was much esteemed by the members of the Hebrew religion, as well as by all who knew him. By his death many charitable institutions are deprived of a benevolent and valuable subscriber, more particularly the Jews Hospital, Society for the Relief of Foreigners in Distress, &c.&c. and indeed there was scarcely any charitable institution to which this gentelman did not bountifully contribute.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002357/18241119/030/0003 |newspaper=New Times (London) |location=England |date=19 November 1824 |access-date=14 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref></blockquote>}}
