Andrew Charles Elliott

Andrew Charles Elliott
Hon. Andrew Charles Elliott
4th Premier of British Columbia
In office February 1, 1876 – February 11, 1878
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Lieutenant Governor	Joseph Trutch Albert Norton Richards
Preceded by	George Anthony Walkem
Succeeded by	George Anthony Walkem
MLA for Victoria City
In office September 11, 1875 – May 22, 1878 Serving with Robert Beaven, James W. Douglas, James Trimble
Preceded by	John Foster McCreight
Succeeded by	John W. Williams
Personal details
Born	(1829-06-22)June 22, 1829 Ireland
Died	April 9, 1889(1889-04-09) (aged 59) San Francisco
Political party	None

Andrew Charles Elliott (June 22, 1829 – April 9, 1889) was a British Columbian politician and jurist. Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included Gold Commissioner, stipendiary magistrate and, following the union of the Island and Mainland Colonies in 1866 was appoint High Sheriff of the province, resigning his magristracy to take the post. He was a member of the colony's appointed Colonial Assembly from 1865 to 1866 and after the colony became a province of Canada he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet.

In 1876 Elliott became the fourth Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence but his government was unstable, was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa build a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.

His daughter Mary married James W. Douglas, the only son of James Douglas, but his son-in-law died at age 32 and Elliott was one of the pallbearers at the funeral.