The Elton Baronetcy, of Bristol, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 31 October 1717 for Abraham Elton, Mayor of and Member of Parliament

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 for Bristol

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from 1722 to 1727. The second Baronet was also Mayor of Bristol and represented Taunton

Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Bristol (1727–1742) in the House of Commons

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. The seventh Baronet sat as Liberal

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 Member of Parliament for Bath

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. The eighth Baronet was High Sheriff of Somerset

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 in 1895. The tenth Baronet was a pioneer of the British documentary film industry.

Two other members of the family may also be mentioned. Frederick Coulthurst Elton, great-grandson of Isaac Elton, great-grandson of Jacob Elton, third son of the first Baronet, was a Colonel

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 in the British Army

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. His son Frederick Algernon George Young Elton (1867–1921), was a Brigadier-General in the Royal Artillery

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The ancestral seat of the Elton family is Clevedon Court

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, Clevedon

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, Somerset

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Elton Baronets, of Bristol (1717)

• Sir Abraham Elton, 1st Baronet (1654–1728)
• Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet (1679–1743)
• Sir Abraham Elton, 3rd Baronet (1703–1761)
• Sir Abraham Isaac Elton, 4th Baronet (1717–1790)
• Sir Abraham Elton, 5th Baronet (1755–1842)
• Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (1778–1853)
• Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet
  Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet
  Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet was a writer and Liberal party politician in the United Kingdom.He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset for 1857...
  
   (1818–1883)
• Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet was an English inventor and studio potter noted for his production of Elton Ware at the Clevedon Elton Sunflower Pottery....
  
   (1846–1920)
• Sir Ambrose Elton, 9th Baronet (1869–1951)
• Sir Arthur Hallam Rice Elton, 10th Baronet (1906–1973)
• Sir Charles Abraham Grierson Elton, 11th Baronet (b. 1953)