Andrew Charles Elliott Explained

Andrew Charles Elliott
Term Start:February 1, 1876
Term End:February 11, 1878
Predecessor:George Anthony Walkem
Successor:George Anthony Walkem
Lieutenant Governor:Joseph Trutch
Albert Norton Richards
Office1:MLA for Victoria City
Term Start1:September 11, 1875
Term End1:May 22, 1878
Predecessor1:John Foster McCreight
Successor1:John W. Williams
Alongside1:Robert Beaven, James W. Douglas, James Trimble
Birth Date:June 22, 1829
Death Place:San Francisco
Party:None

Andrew Charles Elliott (June 22, 1829 – April 9, 1889) was a British Columbian politician and jurist.

Career

Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included gold commissioner, stipendiary magistrate, and, following the union of the Island and Mainland Colonies in 1866, high sheriff of the province. He resigned his magistracy to take the post as High Sheriff. He was a member of the colony's appointed Colonial Assembly from 1865 to 1866. After the colony became a province of Canada, he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet.

In 1876, Elliott became the fourth Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence. His government was unstable, and he was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa builds a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.

Death

Andrew Charles Elliott is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia. His obituary in Amor de Cosmos' Victoria Colonist newspaper read:

Family life

His daughter Mary married James W. Douglas, the only son of James Douglas, but his son-in-law died at age 32, and Elliott was one of the pallbearers at the funeral.

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