Charles Abraham Elton 6th Bart. (1778 - 1853)

Born 31 Oct 1778 in Bristol, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Smith) Elton — married 29 Feb 1804 in St Michael, Bristol, England

Descendants

Died 1 Jun 1853 at age 74 in Bath, Somerset, England

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Biography

Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (31 October 1778 – 1 June 1853) was an English officer in the British Army and also an author.

Charles was was born at Bristol on the 31st of October 1778. the eldest of three sons of the Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, 5th of the Elton baronets, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Durbin, alderman of Bristol.

He was educated at Eton, and at the age of fifteen received a commission in the 48th Regiment of Foot, in which he rose to the rank of captain. He served with the 4th Regiment of Foot in the Flanders Campaign under Frederick, Duke of York. He was afterwards lieutenant-colonel of the Somersetshire Militia.

Charles Elton married Sarah Smith on the 29th of February 1804 at St Michael, Bristol, England.^[1]

On the death of his father (23 February 1842) Charles Elton became the ‘’6th Baronet Elton of Bristol.’’

Elton was friends with Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a strong whig, and spoke at the Westminster hustings on behalf of Samuel Romilly and John Hobhouse; but latterly he lived much in retirement at his home, Clevedon Court.

He died at Bath on 1 June 1853.^[2]

Elton baronets, of Bristol (1717)

1. Sir Abraham Elton, 1st Baronet (1654–1728)
2. Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet (1679–1742)
3. Sir Abraham Elton, 3rd Baronet (1703–1761)
4. Sir Abraham Isaac Elton, 4th Baronet (1717–1790)
5. Sir Abraham Elton, 5th Baronet (1755–1842)
6. Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (1778–1853)
7. Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet (1818–1883); brother of Edmond William Elton (1822–1859)
8. Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet (1846–1920)
9. Sir Ambrose Elton, 9th Baronet (1869–1951)
10. Sir Arthur Hallam Rice Elton, 10th Baronet (1906–1973)
11. Sir Charles Abraham Grierson Elton, 11th Baronet (born 1953)

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Abraham William Elton (born 1995)

Additional Biographical Notes

— the following additional biographical notes focus primarily on his relationship to William Gifford and John Murray, editor and publisher, respectively, of the influential conservative periodical the Quarterly Review. The biography and sources are by Jonathan Cutmore, author of John Murray's Quarterly Review: Letters 1807-1843 (Liverpool University Press, 2019), from his Writing and Reading the Quarterly Review (manuscript, 2015), used by permission. Jonathan Cutmore (c) 2021

Elton, who was born at Bristol, was the oldest of the three sons of a wealthy Bristol clergyman, Sir Abraham Elton (1755–1842), and his wife, Elizabeth Durbin (d. 1822), who was the daughter of a Bristol merchant. The Quarterly Review's publisher, John Murray of London, listed Elton in his 1808 planning notes for the periodical as a man the journal's editor, William Gifford, should approach to review ‘poetry in particular’. He undoubtedly based his recommendation on Elton’s 1804 publication, by Longman, of a collection of Poems. The heir to a large fortune and to Clevedon Court country house near Bristol, Elton is now remembered primarily for his literary friendships, with Southey, Coleridge, Lamb, and Landor. John Murray published his Tales of Romance: With other Poems, including Selections from Propertius (1810). His brother-in-law, Henry Hallam, reviewed his Specimens of the Classic Poets, in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus (1814) in Quarterly Review, Number 25 (article #338).

Sources

1. ↑ Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St M/R/3/c Title Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 Author Ancestry.com
2. ↑ ELTON, CHARLES ABRAHAM : age at death 74  : GRO Reference: 1853 June Quarter in BATH Volume 05C Page 537

• "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGGK-BK6 : 9 November 2019), Charles A Elton, Clevedon, Somerset, England; citing Clevedon, Somerset, England, p. 43, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• Eton School Lists, Charles Abraham Elton, of Clevedon Court, Somerset, admitted 1791.
• 'Sir Charles Abraham Elton, probate 17 Aug 1853. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, PROB 11 / 2177
• National Library of Scotland. John Murray Archive Archive.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd ser., 1 (1835), pp. 359–60.
• Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd ser., 2 (1842), pp. 665.
• Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd ser., 1 (1853), pp. 88–89.