Charles Boileau Elliott

Charles Boileau Elliott FRS (1803–1875)[1] was an English cleric and travel writer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1832.[2]

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.[2]

Works

Elliott was author of:

The Emperor's Winter Palace, St Petersburgh, illustration from Letters from the North of Europe by Charles Boileau Elliott
  • 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)[3]
  • Letters from the North of Europe (1832)[1]
  • Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey (1838)[1]

Family

His daughters married:

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Reinhold Schiffer (1999). Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey. Rodopi. p. 370. ISBN 90-420-0796-6.
  2. 1 2 "Elliott, Charles Boileau (ELT828CB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Jörg Fisch (1 January 1998). Tödliche Rituale: die indische Witwenverbrennung und andere Formen der Totenfolge. Campus Verlag. p. 532. ISBN 978-3-593-36096-6.
  4. ↑ Prior, Katherine. "Young, Sir William Mackworth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37081. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ Prior, Katherine. "Barton, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30631. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ Munden, A. F. "Moule, Handley Carr Glyn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35129. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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