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4 unusual facts about Claude Aurelius Elliott


Claude Aurelius Elliott

Sir Claude Aurelius Elliott OBE, MA, (27 July 1888 - 21 November 1973) was Head Master of Eton College at Windsor in Berkshire, and was later Provost at the same school.

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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.

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In 1949, after sixteen years as Head Master, Elliott was appointed Eton College's Provost, a post he held until 1965.

Claude Elliott

Claude Aurelius Elliott (1888–1973), headmaster and later Provost of Eton College in the United Kingdom



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