Sydney Robert Elliston

Sydney Robert Elliston
Canon
Canon Elliston
Church	1894 St Mary & Martin, Blyth 1898 St Michael, Retford 1901 St Mark, New Lakenham 1904 St Thomas, Killinghall
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Ordination	1895 (priest) by Suffragan Bishop of Southwark
Personal details
Born	1870 Ipswich, England
Died	23 October 1943 (aged 72–73) Killinghall, England
Nationality	British
Spouse	Amelia Tanner Causton
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford
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Canon Sydney Robert Elliston MA (1870 – 23 October 1943) was a journalist, vicar, and canon of Ripon Cathedral. Two of his brothers were William Rowley Elliston and George Elliston MP. He was involved with the formation of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance in 1913, and was its secretary from 1914 to 1935. At his funeral it was said of him that, "The diocese of Ripon owed a great debt to the work of Canon Elliston in laying down sound principles of Church finance." While looking after the finances of Ripon diocese, he was at the same time vicar of one of north-east England's Barber churches: the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall (1880), designed by William Swinden Barber.

His grandfather William Elliston, and his uncle, George Elliston, were medical practitioners. His father William Alfred Elliston MD (1840–1908) was a physician and surgeon of Stoke Hall, Ipswich. His mother was Janet Potter (1846–1891).

He was born at Ipswich in 1870, one of nine siblings. His older brother was Major William Rowley Elliston OBE (1869–1954), who was a barrister, Recorder for Great Yarmouth and Mayor of Ipswich. A younger brother was Guy Elliston (1872–1918) who was financial secretary of the BMA and died of pneumonia. Another younger brother, George Elliston KGStJ MC MA (1875–1954), was a publisher and barrister, and Conservative Member of parliament for Blackburn 1931–1946. His youngest brother Chatterton Eric Elliston (1882–1960) trained as a surgeon but practised as a GP at Porthleven, Cornwall.

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