Background
He was the son of Edmund William Elton and Lucy Maria, daughter of the Revd John Morgan Rice.
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Edmund Edmund Harry Elton
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Edmund Harry Elton was educated at Bradfield College and Jesus College, Cambridge.
Career
Lucy Maria died 16 May 1846, shortly after Edmund Harry"s birth. Edmund William married Clementine Sandryk of Florence on 2 December 1859, producing two daughters:
Mina Antoinetta Beatrice (died 21 June 1876) married (17 April 1873) Robert Frederick Boyle (13 June 1841 – 15 May 1883)
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He was Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the reserve regiment 1st Gloucestershire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) until he reigned his commission in May 1902. He donated the town Clock Tower, completed in 1898, to Clevedon, North Somerset, in celebration of Queen Victoria"s Jubilee.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset in 1895.
The ceramic artist William Fishley Holland joined the pottery after the death of Sir Edmund Elton in 1920, and started his own pottery near Clevedon Court on the closing of the Elton pottery in 1922. Elton"s daughter Kathleen married Guy Molesworth Kindersley and was the mother of David Kindersley, the stone letter-carver and typeface designer.
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United Kingdom of Great Bri