John Bardoe Elliott

Elliott was born in 1785 in Ripon, Yorkshire, the son of John E. Elliott, a naval officer, and Isabella (Todd) Elliott.

Elliott travelled to India in 1800 and spent more than 50 years there. He served as a judge in Patna in 1822-28 then later as the resident there, retiring in 1845. He died in Patna on 26 August 1863.^[1]

Elliott acquired many of the manuscripts collected by Gore Ouseley. The Ouseley manuscripts were not kept separately by Elliott, so that provenance cannot be distinguished fully among the Oxford collections.^[2] The Elliott manuscripts are described in the catalogue published in 1889.^[3]