ELDER, John (3 son of David Elder of Glasgow, marine engineer 1784–1866). b. Glasgow 8 March 1824; member of firm of Randolph Elliott & Co. of Glasgow, marine engineers 1852; a shipbuilder in Glasgow 1860 to death; employed about 4000 men; adopted the compound or combined high and low pressure engines 1854; patented his round war ship 1868 and many improvements in marine machinery; pres. of Institution of engineers and shipbuilders of Glasgow 1869. d. London 17 Sep. 1869. W. J. M. Rankine’s Memoir of J. Elder 1870, portrait; Maclehose’s Memoirs and portraits of a hundred Glasgow men 1886.
ELDER, William. b. Malin, Donegal 22 July 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast, and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; a minister in Presbyterian church; went to New Brunswick; edited the Colonial Presbyterian, edited the Morning Journal at St. John 1865; chief editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph at St. John 1871; member of legislative assembly of New Brunswick 1878 to death; provincial secretary 1882. d. St. John N.B. 23 July 1882. Dominion Annual Register 1883 pp. 309–11.
ELDON, John Scott, 2 Earl of. b. Manchester square, London 10 Dec. 1805; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; D.C.L. 1834; LLD. Cam. 1842; M.P. for Truro 1829–32; succeeded 13 Jany. 1838; pres. of the Pitt club 1842; declared by inquisition to be of unsound mind Jany. 1853. d. Shirley park, Surrey 18 Sep. 1854. bur. family vault at Kingston, Isle of Purbeck 29 Sep. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 671 (1886), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 65 (1844), portrait.
ELDRED, Joseph. b. London 1843; agent for Rev. J. M. Bellew on a reading tour through the provinces 1860; a low comedian in Dublin 1865; an actor and manager at Liverpool; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre 15 June 1868 as Major Regulus Rattan in Ici on parle Français; acted at Gaiety theatre from 21 Dec. 1868; played Micawber in Little Emly at Olympic from 9 Oct. 1869; played several starring tours in provinces; remarkably like the Earl of Beaconsfield. d. Sydney, New South Wales 29 Feb. 1884. Sporting Times 25 Sep. 1875, pp. 537, 540, portrait.
ELDRIDGE, Charles Monroe. Member of assembly for city of St. John’s, Antigua 1852–63; pres. of Dominica 1872 and 1882; pres. of Nevis, April 1872 to May 1873; pres. of St. Christopher 1883 and of St. Kitt’s and Nevis 1883. d. 8 Oct. 1888.
ELEN, Philip West. Landscape painter in London; exhibited 64 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–72. d. Regent’s park road, London 21 Feb. 1880.
ELGIN, James Bruce, 8 Earl of, and 12 Earl of Kincardine (2 son of 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. Park lane, London 20 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835, D.C.L. 1856; fellow of Merton coll. 1833 to 1841; M.P. for Southampton 1841–42; succeeded his father 17 Nov. 1841; governor general of Jamaica 1842–46, of Canada 1846–54; knighted by patent 19 June 1847; K.T. 12 July 1847; created baron Elgin of Elgin 13 Nov. 1849, special ambassador to China 1857–59 and 1860–61; P.C. 21 March 1857; G.C.B. 28 Sep. 1858; postmaster general 1859 to 1860; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1859; received freedom of City of London 1 March 1860; viceroy of India 21 Jany. 1862 to death. d. Dhurmsala, Cashmere 20 Nov. 1863. T. Walrond’s Letters and journals of James, eighth Earl of Elgin 1872; L. Oliphant’s Narrative of Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan 2 vols. 1859; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 108–21; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 360–67; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. 3 (1884).
ELIOT, Rev. Edward (eld. son of Rev. Richard Eliot, Vicar of Maker, Cornwall, who d. 1795). b. Maker 22 May 1789; ed. at Lostwithiel and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 30 June 1811 to 10 July 1826; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1825; archdeacon of Barbadoes 1825–37; V. of Norton Bavant, Wilts. 1837 to death; preb. of Salisbury 30 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Christianity and Slavery 1833 and other books. d. Norton Bavant 1 Nov. 1861.
ELIOTT, Sir Daniel (4 son of Sir William Eliott, 6 baronet, who d. 14 May 1812). b. Stobs castle, Roxburghshire 3 March 1798; writer Madras civil service 1817; sec. to board of revenue 1827; member of Madras council and pres. of revenue, marine and college boards 1848; member of legislative council of India 1855–58; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 12 The Boltons, West Brompton, London 30 Oct. 1872.
ELIOTT, George Augustus (brother of the preceding). b. 24 May 1799; entered navy 1814; captain on h.p. 27 June 1838; admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. d. Bath 13 May 1872.