The Ven. Francis William Thomas Elliott was

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Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

from 1908 until 1911. The post then remained vacant for 27 years.''Ecclesiastical News.''

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(London, England), Tuesday, 13 December 1938; pg. 12; Issue 48176 Elliott was educated at

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and

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in 1877. After a

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at All Saints,

he held incumbencies at

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Demerara Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state fro ...

and

. On his return from

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he was Chaplain at St Marylebone Hospital.

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