Charles Isaac Elton

Background

Charles Isaac Elton was born at Southampton on the 6th of December 1839.

Education

Charles Isaac Elton was educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of Queen's College in 1862.

Career

Charles Isaac Elton was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1865. His remarkable knowledge of old real property law and custom helped him to an extensive conveyancing practice and he took silk in 1885.He sat in the House of Commons for West Somerset in 1884-1885 and from 1886 to 1892.

In 1869 Charles Isaac Elton succeeded to his uncle's property of Whitestaunton, near Chard, in Somerset. During the later years of his life he retired to a great extent from legal practice, and devoted much of his time to literary work.

Achievements

• Charles Isaac Elton is most famous for being the author of the bestselling book The Great Book-Collectors.

Works

• book

  • Origins of English history