Early Life
Elliott was born in India, the only child of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1835–1911), the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, and his second wife, Alice Louisa. Sir Charles had three sons and a daughter from a previous marriage. From his preparatory school, Claude Elliott was elected a king's scholar of Eton College in 1902. He had an undistinguished scholastic career at Eton, but on going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, he discovered a natural bent as an historian, taking his BA in 1909, and becoming a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1910, and a Tutor in 1914. On 17 June 1913 he married Gillian (d. 1966), the daughter of Frederick Turner Bloxam, chief Chancery Registrar, with whom he had a son, John Nicholas Rede Elliott (1916–1994), who worked in Military Intelligence during and after the Second World War, and who was awarded the US Legion of Merit for his services to the Office of Strategic Services.
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