Philip Eliot (priest)
Philip Frank Eliot KCVO (21 December 1835 – 1 November 1917) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Dean of Windsor from 1891 until 1917.
Biography[edit]
Eliot was born at Weymouth, the third son of William Eliot DL and his wife, Lydia Ffolliott,[1][2] sister of John Ffolliott MP of Hollybrook House, County Sligo.[3] He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. Eliot took a prominent part in the Oxford Union Society, serving as its President when it moved to its new premises in 1857.
Ordained in 1859,[4] he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Michael's, Winchester. Following this he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth.
In 1886, he was appointed Canon of the ninth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1891 when he was made Dean of Windsor from 1891 until his death on 1 November 1917.[5]
Family[edit]
Eliot was married twice. He married firstly Mary Anna Marriott Smith (1840–1881), daughter of Rev. Francis Smith, rector of Tarrant Rushton, on 1859 at St Mary's Blandford Forum, with issue:[6]
- Arthur Francis Eliot (1860–1864), died in childhood
- Philip Herbert Eliot (1862–1946), second Bishop of Buckingham
- Edith Mary Eliot (1865–19??)
- Alice Lydia Gertrude Eliot (1867 – 25 December 1920)
- Margaret Fanny Eliot (1868 – 11 June 1953), married Cecil Robert Fryer, brother of Frederick Fryer
- Emily Ffolliott Eliot (1871 – 12 July 1926), married Ashley Bickersteth, son of Edward Henry Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter[7]
- Rev. William Francis Eliot (1876 – 7 August 1922), married Katherine Rutherford Devitt, daughter of Sir Thomas Lane Devitt, 1st Baronet
- Capt John Alfred Roy Eliot (1877 – 8 May 1955), married Gladys Adelaide Beauchamp Nepean, daughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean[8]
After Mary Anna's death, he married Hon. Mary Emma Pitt–Rivers (1843–1900), the daughter of George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers, in 1883 Windsor, with issue[9]
- Victor Alexander George Eliot (1884–1959)
References[edit]
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 978-0-85011-060-9.
- ^ Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Walford, Edward (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. R. Hardwicke. p. 328. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory. London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ "Death of Dr. Eliot. Dean Of Windsor For 26 Years." The Times Friday, 2 November 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41625; col F
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
- ^ Burke, Ashworth Peter (1897). Burke's Family Records. Harrison. p. 69. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1916. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ Plarr, Victor (1895). Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries. G. Routledge and Sons, limited. p. 271. Retrieved 8 February 2020.