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ELRINGTON, JAMES LOFTUS, son of Maj. -Gen. John Henry Elrington, Governor of St. Kitts, West Indies, and Sarah, dau. of James Reed; b. 12 Sep 1811; adm. 14 Jun 1822 (Stelfox's); Ensign and Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 4 Jun 1829; Lieut. and Capt., 5 Dec 1834; Adjutant, 30 Dec 1845; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 11 Jun 1847; retired 7 Apr 1848; d. 13 Oct 1851.

ELRINGTON, JOHN HENRY, brother of James Loftus Elrington (qv); b. 14 Aug 1814; adm. 17 Jan 1827; d. 6 Jun 1830.

Elsdon, Francis Dominic, son of the Rev. Thomas Charles Elsdon, Vicar of St. Philip, Clerkenwell, London; b. Sept. 24, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (R); left Dec. 1907; entered the service of the Bank of Nigeria, 1909; posted to Grand Bassarn, French Ivory Coast, 1911; accountant to a commercial firm in the Belgian Congo, 1912-1924; and at Vavau, Tonga Islands, 1924; d. at Vavau, June 16, 1927.

ELSTOB, CHARLES, son of Rev. Charles Elstob DD, Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Tillington, Sussex, and Matilda, dau. of Thomas Paine, Petworth, Sussex; bapt. Canterbury Cathedral 9 Dec 1696; at school under Freind (J. E. B. Mayor, ed. , Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , ii, 214) ; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 May 1714, aged 16, matr. 1714. [perhaps m. 19 Aug 1724 Ann Nethersole (IGI)]

ELSYNG, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.

ELSYNGE, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Elsynge, Battersea, Surrey, Clerk of Parliaments, House of Lords, and barrister, Middle Temple, and his first wife Blanch, dau. of Richard Hyett, Cornwell, Oxfordshire; nephew of Thomas Knyvett (qv); b.; bapt. 2 Mar 1606 at St Dunstan-in-the-West [DNB]; at school under Wilson (Camdeni Insignia, 1624); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 18; BA 1625; adm. Middle Temple 24 Nov 1628; travelled abroad for seven years; Clerk of the House of Commons 21 Dec 1639 – 5 Jan 1649, when he resigned to avoid taking part in the proceedings against Charles I; retired to Hounslow, Middlesex; author, Of the Form and Manner of holding a Parliament in England, 1663 (a treatise largely or wholly the work of his father), and other works; m. 8 Nov 1636 Margaret, sister of Richard Tias (qv); d. Hounslow, Middlesex Aug 1654 (body subsequently removed and buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 30 Sep 1656). DNB.

ELSYNGE, ROBERT, brother of Henry Elsynge (qv); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1630, matr. 26 Oct 1632, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1641; BA 1634.

ELTHAM, ABRAHAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1717/8; left 1720.

ELWES, CARY CHARLES, second son of Robert Cary Elwes, Great Billing, Northants, and his first wife Hon. Caroline Anderson Pelham, second dau. of Charles Anderson Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough; b. 2 Nov 1800; adm. 16 Sep 1812; left 1813; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1820; of Great Billing, Northants, and of Roxby and Brigg, Lincs.; DL JP Lincs., JP Northamptonshire, High Sheriff 1853; m. 1st, 17 Aug 1826 Elinor, eldest dau. of Rear-Adm. Peter Rye, Culworth, Northants; m. 2nd, 21 Jun 1860 Caroline, second dau. of Maj. Henry William Seymour Stuart, Wickham, Fareham, Hants.; d. 24 Jan 1866.