ELIOT, RICHARD, second son of Rev. Edward Eliot, Vicar of Norton Bavant, Wilts., and Prebendary of Salisbury, sometime Archdeacon of Barbados, and ---, d. of --- Skeats [or Skeet ?], Barbados, West Indies; b. 6 Apr 1831; adm. (G) 7 Jan 1844; QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student; BA 1853; MA 1856; ordained 1857; d. 14 May 1862.
ELLERSHAW, ARTHUR, son of Rev. John Ellershaw, Rector of Chew Stoke, Somerset, and Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of Lieut. -Col. William Pilsworth, Leeds, Staff Officer of Pensioners; b. 27 Feb 1869; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1880; Min. Can. 1883; left May 1885; RMA Woolwich, Gentleman Cadet 28 Aug 1886; 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery 27 Jul 1888; Lieut., 27 Jul 1891; Capt., 1 Mar 1899; Maj., 8 May 1909; Lieut. -Col., 9 Apr 1916; acting Brig. -Gen., 1917-9; Col., 1 Jan 1921; retired as Brig. -Gen., 1925; served North West Frontier, India 1897-8, with Natal Field Force in South African War 1900 (severely wounded), Aden expedition 1903-4, and 1914-8 War; commanded 111th Heavy Battery with 111th Division in Flanders 1914-5, 46th Heavy Artillery Brigade in France 1916, Heavy Artillery 1st Corps 1917, 8th Corps Feb - Jun 1918, 6th Corps Jun 1918 - Nov 1919 in France and Flanders; mentioned in despartches LG 17 Feb 1915, 22 Jun 1915, 4 Jan 1917, 11 Dec 1917, 20 Dec 1918; DSO 3 Jun 1915; CMG 1 Jan 1918; CB 1 Jan 1919; French Croix de Guerre; m. 4 Nov 1926 Nora Mary, younger dau. of J. T. Middleton, Woking, Surrey; d. 16 Jul 1929.
Elliot, Herbert Hugh, son of Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot, author, of Chislehurst, Kent, and Rose Maud, d. of N. Chesterfield; b. 3 June 1909; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left 1927; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1927, BA 1930; PO RAFVR June 1942; m. 1939 Kate Marjorie, d. of Rev. Vernon Iles of South Marston, Wilts; killed in an air accident in Kenya 13 July 1942.
Herbert Hugh Elliot was born at Hove, West Sussex on the 3rd of June 1909 the only son of Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot, an author, and Rosa Maud (nee Chesterfield) Elliot of 15, Bede House, Manor Fields, Putney. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1921 to 1927 and was a member of the Chess team in 1925 and 1926. He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge where he was admitted as an Entrance Exhibitioner on a Westminster Exhibition on the 1st of October 1927. He was awarded a BA in 1930.
He was married in south London in 1939 to Kate Marjorie (nee Iles) of “Abbots Cot”, Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. He was elected as a member of the London Rowing Club in 1932. He was elected as a member of the committee in 1938 and rowed in the Thames Cup in 1937, 1938 and 1939.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an Observer and rose to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 12th of October 1941.
Herbert Elliott and his crew took off on the 13th of July 1942 in Blenheim Mk IV V5869 with two other Blenheims from the unit to practice low level attacks. They had been briefed that they were not to fly below 50 feet. The aircraft was making a mock attack on a vehicle on the Isiolo to Marsabit road, near Nanyuki in Kenya when it struck a tree and crashed at 10.45am killing all on board.
The crew was:-
Sergeant Lyndley Dawson Craven RAAF (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Herbert Hugh Elliott (Observer)
Flying Officer Eric Arthur Main (Pilot)
A telegram was sent to D, H. Hopgood dated the 15th April 1942: - “Deeply regret to inform you that Pilot Officer Herbert Hugh Elliott is reported to have lost his life as he result of an aircraft accident on 13/7/42. The Air Council express their profound sympathy. His wife has been informed.”
The accident was attributed to pilot having disobeyed his orders as the aircraft was seen to descend below 50 feet while making its dummy attack. As a result of the accident the unit was ordered not to fly below 100 feet during future exercises of the same type.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge and on the memorial at the London Rowing Club.
He is buried at Nanyuki War Cemetery Row 1 Grave 34.
ELLIOT, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 16) Apr 1743 (Ludford's); left 1744; evidently “Elliot” referred to in a letter of condolence on the death of Archibald Hamilton (qv) written by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (qv), to Frederick Hamilton (qv), 5 Jun 1744, so not improbably of the same social class as they were.
ELLIS, CHARLES, youngest brother of John Ellis (adm. 1660, qv); b.; adm.; BB 1676; KS 1677; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1681, adm. pens. May 1681, aged 18, scholar 1682; BA 1684/5; MA 1688; Fellow of Christ’s Coll. Camb., appointed before 30 Sep 1686, ceased to reside 1691, Junior Dean and Catechist 1687, Bunting preacher 1689; ordained deacon 22 May 1687, priest 29 May 1687 (both Lincoln); Chaplain to Earl of Pembroke; the news of his death at Vienna, where he had gone as travelling tutor to --- Backwell, reached Rome by 12 Mar 1699/1700.
Ellis, Christopher Herbert Evelyn, son of Capt. Herbert M. Ellis, M.C., of Coombe, Surrey; b. Dec. 14, 1900; adm. April 30, 1914 (A); left Dec. 1915; d. in Canada 1950.
Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton, son of Capt. Herbert Moates Ellis MC FSI, and his second wife Jane Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Hamilton; half brother of Christopher Herbert Evelyn Ellis (qv); b. 9 June 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (G); left Dec. 1925; Exeter Coll. Oxf., matric. 1928, but did not graduate; Roy. W. Kent Regt May 1939, invalided 1940; FRSA; a writer and painter; an authority on railway history and author of many books on the subject; m. July 1933 Olivia Mildred, d. of Louis Sargent of Horley, Surrey; d. 29 June 1987.
Ellis, David Stuart, son of Thomas Leslie Ellis MB, of Blackheath, and Dorothy Margaretha Stuart, d. of Edward Charles Stuart Baker CIE OBE, Indian Police Service; b. 17 Nov. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (R); left July 1940; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1940, BA 1943, MA 1957; St George's Hosp. Med. Sch. 1943; MB BChir 1957, MD (Oxon.) 1979; res. Fellow Lond. Sch. of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and hon. consult. microbiologist PHLS Porton, Wilts; m. 20 Sept. 1946 Angela, d. of Ashley Dukes, playwright and theatre owner; d. 21 Feb. 2012.
ELLIS, EDWARD RADCLYFFE, son of Rev. Arthur Ayres Ellis, Vicar of Stotfold, Beds., and Harriet Elizabeth, dau. of Henry George Radclyffe, Islington; b. 27 Jun 1865; adm. as QS 20 Oct 1879; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1884, adm. pens. 8 Mar 1884, matr. Mich. 1884; BA 1887; MA 1891; ordained deacon 1888, priest 1889 (both Rochester); Assistant Master and Chaplain, Cheam School, Surrey, and Curate, West Cheam 1888-97; Curate, St. Stephen’s, Portland Town, London 1897-1900; Lecturer, Bolton Parish Church, Lancs., 1900-10; Rector of Norris Bank, Lancs., 1910-21; Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland 1921-39; m. 24 Jan 1901 Agnes Mary, youngest dau. of George Thomas Parkinson, Fellows Road, Hampstead, Middlesex.
ELLIS, EDWARD, brother of John Gerrard Ellis (qv); b. 23 Mar 1785; adm.; KS 1799; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1803, matr. 23 May 1803, Westminster Student (still 1814); BA 1807; MA 1809; an Usher at the School 1806-14, Under Master 1814 - 3 Aug 1821; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1809, priest 25 Mar 1810 (both York); Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., from 21 Dec 1815; m. 4 Jan 1816 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. John Russell, Rector of Helmdon, Northants.; d. 9 Sep 1823.