Sneha Girap (Editor)

Charles Boileau Elliott

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Charles Elliott


Role
  
Writer

Charles Boileau Elliott

Books
  
Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey

Charles Boileau Elliott FRS (1803–1875) was an English cleric and travel writer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1832.

Contents

Life

Elliott was educated at Harrow School and Haileybury College. He spent some time working for the East India Company. He matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1829, graduating B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1837. He became vicar of Godalming in Surrey in 1833, and rector of Tattingstone in Suffolk in 1838.

Works

Elliott was author of:

  • Two letters addressed to the supreme government of British India, regarding the abolition of suttees; and the best means of ameliorating the moral and intellectual condition of the natives of India (1827)
  • Letters from the North of Europe (1832)
  • Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey (1838)

    • Family

    His daughters married:

  • Isabel Maria, in 1869, to Mackworth Young, dying in 1870;
  • Emily Eugenia, in 1863, to John Barton;
  • Harriot Mary, in 1881, to Handley Carr Glyn Moule.

    • References

    Charles Boileau Elliott Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA