| Authorised form of name | Elliot; Sir; Walter (1803 - 1887) |
| Dates | 1803 - 1887 |
| Date of birth | 16 January 1803 |
| Place of death | Wolflee, Roxburghshire |
| Date of death | 01 March 1887 |
| Research field | Archaeology |
| Zoology |
| Botany |
| Activity | Education:
Hailebury College
Career:
Went to India (1821); Private Secretary to Lord Elphinstone (1836); Commissioner for the administration of the Northern Sirkars (to 1854); retired from the Civil Service (1860); wrote on the coins of Southern India (1885); had poor eyesight and eventually went blind
Honours:
KCSI 1866
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1878 |
| Relationships | Son of James Elliot of Wolflee, Roxburghshire; married Maria Dorothea, daughter of Sir David Blair of Blairquahan, Ayrshire |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1887 vol 42 pp viii-ix signed by P L S
Notes:
Cert X, 323i is a list of papers attached to the certificate |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/38316862 |
| Code | NA6475 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1878/08 | Elliot, Sir Walter: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/11/2 | Letter from C [Charles] Spence Bate, 8 Mulgrave Place, Plymouth, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society | 6 January 1877 |
| MC/11/223 | Letter from Walter Elliot, Wolfelee, Hawick, North Britain, to the Royal Society | 11 June 1878 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |