Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (31 October 1778 – 1 June 1853) was an English officer in the British Army and an author.

Life

Charles was eldest of three sons of the Rev Sir Abraham Elton, 5th of the Elton baronets, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Durbin, alderman of Bristol, and was born at Bristol on 31 October 1778. He was educated at Eton, and at the age of fifteen received a commission in the

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, in which he rose to the rank of captain. He served with the

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in the

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under

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. He was afterwards lieutenant-colonel of the Somersetshire Militia. On the death of his father (23 February 1842) he became 6th baronet. Elton was friends with Charles Lamb and

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. He was a strong whig, and spoke at the Westminster hustings on behalf of

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and John Hobhouse; but latterly he lived much in retirement at his house, Clevedon Court. He died at Bath on 1 June 1853.

Bibliography

Elton's published works were: # ''Poems'', 1804. # ''Remains of

Hesiod Hesiod (; grc-gre, Ἡσίοδος ''Hēsíodos'') was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by western authors as 'the first written poet i ...

, translated into English verse''. # ''Tales of Romance, and other Poems, including selections from

Propertius Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus a ...

'', 1810. # ''Specimens of the Classical Poets in a chronological series from

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to Tryphiodorus, translated into English verse'', 1814 (with critical observations prefixed to each specimen; reviewed in the ''Quarterly Review'', xiii. 151–8). # ''Remains of Hesiod, translated... with notes'', 1815 (''by C. A. E''.) # ''Appeal to Scripture and Tradition in Defence of the

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'' (anon.), 1818. # ''The Brothers, a Monody eferring to the death of his sons and other Poems'', 1820. # ''History of Roman Emperors'', 1825. # ''Δεύτερας Φροντιδες: Second Thoughts on the Person of Christ, on Human Sin, and on the Atonement, containing reasons for the Author's Secession from the Unitarian Communion and his Adherence to that of the

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'', 1827.

Family

Elton married in 1804 Sarah, eldest daughter of

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, merchant of Bristol, by whom he had five sons and eight daughters. The two eldest sons were drowned in 1819, while bathing near Birnbeck Island, Weston-super-Mare. The third, Arthur Hallam Elton (born 19 April 1818), succeeded to the baronetcy, and died 14 October 1883. The fifth son, Rev. Henry George Tierney Elton, was Vicar of West Hatch, Somerset, and married Georgina Flora Willis, dying in 1905 having had issue. Elton's fourth daughter, Laura Mary (died 1848) married Charles Samuel Grey (1811-16), Paymaster of the Civil Services in Ireland and second son of Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet Grey of Fallodon, with whom she had five children. His seventh daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was mother of Charles Isaac Elton (an

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and author of ''Origins of English History''). The eighth daughter, Jane Octavia, married

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. Elton's sister, Julia Maria, married

Henry Hallam Henry Hallam (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history. His major works were ''View of the ...

the historian.

Notes

References

* * * * Attribution * Endnotes: **''Gentleman's Magazine'' 1853. ii. 88, 89; **Foster's and Burke's ''Baronetages''.

External links

* Read and/or download Elton'
verse translation of ''Hesiod''
at the

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