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Elliot Colvin |
Old Carthusians
AFC
uncapped
1882 |
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Timeline |
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Sir
Elliot Graham Colvin KC JP |
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Birth |
Thursday, 18 July 1861 in Almorah, Bengal,
India [registered in India, Births] |
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Baptism |
6 October 1862 in Bengal |
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According to the 1871 census,
Elliot is the son of Bazett Wetenhall and Mary Eliza, and along with three
of his siblings, they are scholars at the Vicarage in Dunton. |
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Elliot is found twice on the 1881 census,
he is an undergraduate for the Indian Civil Service, is a lodger at 63
Trumpington Street in the West Barnwell area of Cambridge, the home of
William and Eliza Wilson.
He is also found at the home of his parents
at The Elms in Ham. He is a Undergraduate at Cambridge University and a
probationer for the Indian Civil Service. One of five children and with
three servants. |
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Marriage |
to Ethel Augusta Colvin Bayley on
Saturday, 6 December 1888
at St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta, West Bengal [registered in India
Marriages].
"COLVIN—BAYLEY—.December 6, 1888,
at St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, Elliot Graham Colvin, Bengal Civil
Service, to Ethel, eldest daughter of the Hon. Sir Steuart C. Bayley,
K.C.S.I., Lieut.-Governor of Bengal." -
Monday, 7 January 1889, The Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Three children, Helen Bertha Mary and Brenda Gwyneth Steuart and Hugh
Elliot. |
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Not found on the 1891-1911 census'. |
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London Electoral
Registers in 1919-20 places Sir Elliot amd Lady Ethel at 22 Tite Street in
Chelsea. Onto 4 Palace Gardens Terrace in Kensington by 1927. |
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London Electoral
Registers in 1932 places Sir Elliot at 258 King's Road, Chelsea.
According to the 1939
register, Elliot G. and his wife Ethel, are living at Gangbridge House in
Kingsclere. He is an Indian Civil Servant, and for the war effort - an air
warden. |
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Death |
Friday, 2 August 1940
in Andover, Hampshire,
aged 79 years 15 days [registered in Kingsclere, September 1940].
"COLVIN.—On Aug. 2, 1940, at
Gangbridge, St. Mary Bourne, Andover, Hants, SIR
ELLIOT GRAHAM
COLVIN, K.C.S.I., beloved
husband of Ethel Colvin. Cremation private. No flowers. Memorial service
at St. Peter's Church, St. Mary Bourne, 12.0 noon, Monday, Aug. 5." |
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Probate |
"COLVIN
K.C. J.P. sir Elliott Graham of Gangbridge St. Mary
Bourne Andover Hampshire
died 2 August 1940 Probate Llandudno
23 January to Hugh Elliot Colvin captain H.M. army and Brenda Gwyneth
Steuart Colvin spinster.
Effects £
5826 16s. 1d." |
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Charterhouse Register |
b. 18 July, 1861: 2 s. of B.W. Colvin; (Pageites—Saunderites);
Junior & Senior Scholar; Cricket XI, 1876, '77, '78; Capt. 1878; Football
XI, 1877-'78; Exhibitioner;
Left C.Q. 1878. King's Coll., Camb.—C.U.
Football XI, 1881-'82;
played Football for Old Carthusians (Winners of
the Association Cup, 1881).—
I.C.S. 1883, employed in Bengal;
Assam, 1884; Rajputana, 1886; Private Secretary to Lt.-Gov. of Bengal,
1887;
1st Assistant to Governor-General's Agent in Baluchistan, 1889;
Officiating Postmaster-General of Bengal, 1890;
Settlement
Commissioner, Alwar & Bharatpur, 1896; Political Agent of Baluchistan,
1897; of E. Rajputana States, 1897;
Revenue & Judicial Commissioner &
Officiating Agent to Governor-General of Baluchistan, 1900; Resident of
Cashmere, 1903;
Chief Commissioner of Ajmer-Merwara, and Agent to the
Governor-General, Rajputana, 1905; C.S.I. 1906.
m. 1888, Ethel, I d. of
Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley, K.C.S.I., Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
| E.G. Colvin, Esq., C.S.I., East
India U.S. Club, S.W. |
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Cambridge University Alumni |
Admission at King's, 9 October 1880.
Son of the Bazett Wetenhall, of Lexden, Essex.
born
18 July 1861. School: Charterhouse. Matriculated Michs. 1880; Football
(assoc.) 'blue' 1881, 1882.
Entered the I.C.S. 1882. Assistant Magistrate, Alipore; political
assistant private Secretary to Lieut.-Governor of Bengal,
1887;
first assistant, Mysore, 1888; at Baluchistan, 1889. Settlement
Officer, North Behar, 1891-5.
Magistrate and Collector in Bengal,
1895. Settlement
Commissioner, Alwar and Bharatpur, 1896.
Political agent in Eastern Rajputana
States, 1897. Revenue and Judicial Commissioner Baluchistan, 1897-1901.
Superintended Thagi and Dahaiti operations, 1902. Resident in Kasmir, 1902-5.
Agent to the Governor-General of Rajputana and Chief Commissioner, Ajmer Merwara, 1905-17.
K.G. of St. John of Jerusalem, C.S.I., 1906. K.C.S.I., 1911. British
delegate on Bulgarian Reparation Commission, 1921-4;
on the
Inter-Allied Commission for Reparation of damages suffered in Turkey, at
Paris, 1926-30.
Of Gangbridge, St. Mary Bourne, Andover.
(Burke. P and B.; Knightage;
Who's Who, 1939) |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Played for
Charterhouse School, Old Carthusians AFC and Cambridge University AFC |
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Club honours |
FA Cup Winners 1880-81; |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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England Career |
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Position(s) |
Half-back |
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Notes: |
Appears as Colom in some teamsheets |
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Beyond England |
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none |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
reserve |
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