Sir Robert Bartlett Elliott (3 January 1934 – 21 August 2020) was a New Zealand medical researcher. Born in

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, on 3 January 1934, Elliott was educated at Adelaide High School, and studied medicine at the

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from 1951 to 1956. After working as a house surgeon in

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, he trained in paediatric medicine in Adelaide and

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. He was appointed as a senior lecturer at Adelaide in 1963, and in 1970 he moved to the

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as the foundation professor of paediatrics. In the

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, Elliott was appointed a

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, for services to medical research. He was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to medical research, in the

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. Elliott died at his home in Auckland on 21 August 2020 at the age of 86.

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