The Very Rev Philip Frank Eliot KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was an eminent Anglican

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 clergyman during the last decades of the 19th century and the first two

Decade

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 of the 20th. He was born at Weymouth on 21 December 1835 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

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. Ordained in 1859, he began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy

Curate

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 at St Michael’s, Winchester

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. Following this he was Vicar

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 of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth

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 and then Dean of Windsor

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 from 1891 until his death on 1 November 1917. His son Philip Eliot was the second Bishop of Buckingham

Bishop of Buckingham

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Family

Philip Frank Eliot was married twice:

• Mary Anna Marriott Smith (1840-1881) on 1859 at St Mary's Blandford Forum, with issue

1. Arthur Francis Eliot (1860-1864)
2. Philip Herbert Eliot (1862-1946)
3. Edith Mary Eliot (1865-19??)
4. Alice Lydia G. Eliot (1867-19??)
5. Margaret Fanny Eliot (1868-19??)
6. Emily Ffolliott Eliot (1871-1???)
7. William Francis Eliot (1876-1922)
8. John Alfred R. Eliot (1877-19??)

• Mary Emma Pitt-Rivers (1843-1900) on 1883 Windsor, with issue

1. Victor Alexander G. Eliot (1884-1959)