Sir George William Elliot, 2nd Baronet (13 May 1844 – 15 November 1895) was an English colliery owner and

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politician who sat in the

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in two periods between 1874 and 1895. Elliot was born at

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, the son of

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and his wife Margaret Green, daughter of George Green. His father had been MP for

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. Elliot was educated at Edinburgh and at

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. He was an athletics blue in 1865 and 1866. He was the owner of a colliery. At the 1874 general election Elliot was elected member of parliament for

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. He held the seat until 1885. In 1886, he was elected MP for

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and held the seat until 1895. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father in 1893. Elliot was master of the Bedale Hunt from 1884 to 1888, a deputy lieutenant for Monmouth and a J.P. He died at

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at the age of 51. Elliot married Sarah Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor a colliery owner of

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in 1866.

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* 1844 births 1895 deaths Deputy lieutenants of Monmouthshire Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 2 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 British businesspeople in the coal industry {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub