Background
ELLIOTT, Charles Alfred was born in December 1835. Son of Reverend H. V. Elliott, Brighton, and Julia, d, of John Marshall, Ilallsteads, Ullswater, Member of Parliament for Leeds.
ELLIOTT, Charles Alfred was born in December 1835. Son of Reverend H. V. Elliott, Brighton, and Julia, d, of John Marshall, Ilallsteads, Ullswater, Member of Parliament for Leeds.
Harrow; Trinity College Cambridge. Doctor of Laws Edinburgh.
Entered Indian Civil Service, 1856. Served in the Mutiny, 1857-1858 (medal and mentioned in despatches). Secretary to Government of the North-Western Provinces, 1870-1875.
Famine Commissioner in Mysore, 1877-1878.
Secretary to the Indian Famine Commission, 1878-1880. Chief Commissioner of Assam, 1881-1885.
President Finance Committee, 1886-1887. Member Executive Council of Viceroy in charge of Public Works, 1887-1800.
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1891-1895.
Member of the House of Laymen and of the Repre sentative Church Council. Cartulary-register 1887. Honorary Indian Civil Service, retired 1895.
Member of the House of Laymen. Justice of the Peace for Surrey.
Clubs: Athenaeum, East India United Service.