ELLIOT, John Edmund (youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26 Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of Letter to the Teviotside Farmer 1841. d. 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.
ELLIOT, Sir Thomas Frederick (brother of Sir Charles Eliot 1801–75). b. London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April 1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869. d. Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.
ELLIOT, Sir Walter (eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee, Roxburghshire). b. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848, first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to 27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June 1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of Carnacta translation of Esop’s Fables 1840; Flora Andhrica, a list of plants in the Telegu district 1859, and of many papers on archæology in Indian Antiquary, Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society and other periodicals. d. Wolfelee 1 March 1887. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, July 1887 pp. 519–24; Biograph i, 251–54 (1882).
ELLIOTSON, John (eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st. Southwark, druggist). b. High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent 5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16, M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846; assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34; professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838; senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st. 1849; established The Zoist, a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of The principles and practice of medicine 1839; Treatise on human physiology, Fifth ed. 1835–40, another ed. 1856 and other books. d. 2 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. J. Ashburner’s Notes and Studies (1867) 59–68; Medical Circular iv, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3 (1854); Physic and Physicians ii, 273–85 (1839).
ELLIOTT, Charles. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.; treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of The life of Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan 1831. d. Portland place, London 4 May 1856 aged 79.
ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles. b. Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district 4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown, Panama 4 years; edited Pittsburg Conference Journal; edited Western Christian Advocate to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60; author of Treatise on Baptism 1834; Delineation of Roman Catholicism 2 vols. 1842, third ed. 1851; Life of Bishop Roberts 1853 and other books. d. Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany. 1869.
ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles Boileau (eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d. 4 May 1856). b. 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April 1832; author of Letters from the North of Europe 1832; Travels in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols. 1838 and other books. d. Geneva 1 July 1875.
ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles John. b. 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death; surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author of Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private confession and absolution 1859 and other books; contributed to the Bible Educator 1872, the S.P.C.K. Commentary, Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities, Edinburgh Review, &c. d. Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.
ELLIOTT, Charlotte (3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and Brighton). b. 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at Brighton 1857 to death; edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book 1834–59; edited The Invalid’s Hymn book, 6 ed. 1854, to this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am, without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of Hymns for a week 1837, 40th thousand 1871; Hours of Sorrow 1836 and many later editions; Poems by C. E. 1863. d. 10 Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B. (Mrs. E. Babington) 1873, portrait; Just as I am, by C. Elliott 1884 with memoir by H. L. L. 1885; Miller’s singers and songs of the church 1869, 461–62.
ELLIOTT, Rev. Edward Bishop (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St. Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of The Question “What is the image of the Beast?” answered 1838; Horæ Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and historical 3 vols. 1844; Vindiciæ Horariæ 1848 and 6 other books. d. 30 July 1875.