Born in Calcutta the third son of William Henry Elliott, Chief Magistrate there (who refused a baronetcy and never dared to tell his wife!). He was educated in Brighton, Koblenz, Reading, and, after a short period of working in the City when his foot was badly crushed, at Repton. Elliott then undertook a training in forestry. This lead to his working in Saxony with Ratzeburg and von Siebold's ‘Merry Black Foresters’ between 1871-1873. At this time he also became an Unteroffizier in the Saxon Iagers and assisted at King John of Saxony's Jubilee.

Tony Irwin informs me that there are specimens bearing the label Elliot in E.A.Butler’s foreign collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera at Norwich Museum. (MD 10/03)

Little seems to be known about Elliman who compiled the first list of Coleoptera for Hertfordshire in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, 1, 1902, pp.83-110, and who added to the list with notes in the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society (eg. 12, 1905, p.168 and 13, 1907, p.10). For at least part of this time he lived in Tring and subsequently in Chesham, and he published notes on these Buckinghamshire sites in the EMM. (eg. 36, 1900, pp.11-12 and 236; 39, 1903, pp.18-19; 40, 1904, p.158; and 41, 1905, p.20).

A Doctor. Gave a number of insects including Coleoptera from Livingstone, N.W.Rhodesia, to the NHM in 1910 (1910.56). (MD 10/02)

Collected 'a few' of the 57 Coleoptera from S.W.Uganda given to the NHM by G.R.Hancock in 1934 (1934.210) and a further 15 specimens which he gave himself in the following year (1935.246). (MD 10/02)

Published ‘Odontaeus armiger (Scop.) in Berkshire’ in EMM., 97, 1961, p.286. AES member who lived in Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.. (MD 10/02)

Published ‘Dermestes frischii Kug. attacking the shells of cuttlefish’ in EMM., 92, 1956, p.408. Coleoptera collected by Edwards in the Midlands, including Lichfield, and in E. Yorkshire in the 1950s, are in the Department of Zoology at Hull University. (I am grateful to Roger Key for this information). (MD 10/02)

Worked for the Rentokil Research Laboratory and published various notes on Coleoptera including: ‘Alphitobius diaperinus Pz. in Broiler Houses’ (EMM., 98, 1962, p.88); ‘Two new records for Metophthtalmus serripennis (Broun)’ (ibid., 101, 1965, p.115); ‘Anthrenus sarnicus Mroczk.

Daughter (?) of John Edwards (see below). Collected actively in Constantinople and surrounding area, and in Rumania, sometimes with Miss E. Relfs. Made seven donations to the NHM between 1923 and 1928 which included more than 340 Coleoptera (1923.425, 1925.309, 1925.323, 1925.347, 1925.388, 1925.407,1928.238). (MD 10/02)