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Elder was the son of John Edward Elder of Barbados, born on 1 October 1812.
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At the age of twelve he was sent to Charterhouse, where he remained till 1830, when he gained an open scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated Bachelor of Arts 1834, Master of Arts 1836, Doctor of Divinity 1853. He held a tutorial appointment at Balliol till 1839, when he became headmaster of Durham Cathedral grammar school.
Elder was a successful head, and when in 1853 Augustus Page Saunders became Dean of Peterborough and he was appointed headmaster of Charterhouse, many of the Durham boys, among them Henry Nettleship, migrated to London with him.
At Charterhouse he was intermittently ill and absent from the school. And suffered a breakdown.
On 6 April 1858 he died. Elder contributed articles to William Smith"s Dictionary of Classical Biography and Mythology, as well as the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
