Background
ELIOT, Philip Frank was born on December 21, 1835 in Weymouth, Dorset. 3rd son of William Eliot, Justice of the Peace and D.L., and Lydia, daughter of John Ffoliott, Member of Parliament for Sligo.
ELIOT, Philip Frank was born on December 21, 1835 in Weymouth, Dorset. 3rd son of William Eliot, Justice of the Peace and D.L., and Lydia, daughter of John Ffoliott, Member of Parliament for Sligo.
Studied at Bath Grammar School. Trinity College, Oxford (Exhibitioner). 2nd class Moderations (Oxford) 1855.
2nd class Classics 1857. Doctor of Divinity.
Curate of St. Michael’s, Winchester, 1858-1860. Chaplain at Cally, Gatehouse, N. B., 1861-1864. Curate of Walcot, Bath, 1864-1867.
Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth, 1867-1890. Honourable Canon, Winchester Cathedral, 1881. Canon of Windsor, 1886.
Domestic Chaplain to Queen Victoria, 1891-1901. To King Edward VII., 1901-1910. Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury, 1904. Dean of Windsor; Domestic Chaplain to His Majesty; Registrar of the Most Noble Older of the Garter since 1891.
Club: Constitutional.