Philip Eliot (priest)


The Very Rev Philip Frank Eliot was an eminent Anglican clergyman during the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.
Eliot was born at Weymouth, the third son of William Eliot and his wife, Lydia Ffolliott, sister of John Ffolliott of Hollybrook House, County Sligo. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1859, he began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Michael's, Winchester. Following this he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth.
In 1886, he was appointed Canon of the ninth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1891 when he was made Dean of Windsor from 1891 until his death on 1 November 1917.

Family

Eliot was married twice. He married firstly Mary Anna Marriott Smith, daughter of Rev. Francis Smith, rector of Tarrant Rushton, on 1859 at St Mary's Blandford Forum, with issue:
After Mary Anna's death, he married Hon. Mary Emma Pitt–Rivers, the daughter of George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers, in 1883 Windsor, with issue