Early Life
Sir Walter Elliot was born in 1803 at Edinburgh, son of James Elliot of Wolfelee and Caroline. His early education was under a private tutor and he later went to school near Doncaster. He then went to Haileybury College wit a recommendation from his aunt the widow of the twelfth Lord Elphinstone and graduated with "high distinction" and took up an appointment in the East India Company's Civil Service and landed in Madras on 14 June 1820.
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