Elliot Colvin (died 1940) explained

Elliot Colvin (died 1940) should not be confused with Elliott Colvin (died 1883).

Sir Elliot Graham Colvin, KCSI (1861–1940) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he served in the Political Department of the Government of India.

Life and career

Elliot Colvin was born on 18 July 1861, the son of Bazett Colvin, ICS.^{[1] [2] [3]} He was educated at Charterhouse, where he was a scholar and an exhibitioner, and King’s College, Cambridge.^[4]

Colvin joined the Indian Civil Service in 1882.^[5] He was an assistant magistrate in the Bengal in 1883, then joined the Political Department in 1884 as an assistant. In 1887, he became private secretary to the Governor of Bengal.

He was listed in the India Office List (1911) as agent to the Governor General, Rajputana in 1882.^[6]

Family

He married Ethel Augusta on 7 December 1889 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta (now Kolkata).^[7]

Honours

C.S.I. 1906.^[4]

External links

• Colvin, Sir Elliot Graham . 4.4 . 96 . 1915.

Notes and References

1. News: 3 August 1940 . Sir Elliot Colvin . . 6.
2. Web site: Archives . The National . The Discovery Service . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . 16 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230316121422/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F33873 . 16 March 2023.
3. Web site: 1939 England and Wales Register. 16 March 2023. The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Kew, Surrey. 1939. ancestry.co.uk. subscription.
4. Book: Burke, Sir Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage . Burke . Ashworth Peter . 1910 . Harrison . 2051 . en.
5. Book: Webb . Sidney . The Webbs in Asia: The 1911–12 Travel Diary . 1992 . Springer . 978-1-349-12328-5 . 354 . https://books.google.com/books?id=3DevCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA354 . en . 8. India.
6. Book: UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939. London. 10. 1911.
7. Book: Axon, Ernest . Family of Bayley of Manchester and Hope . 1894 . R. Gill . 36 . en.