February 13, 1833, Warwick, England.
February 5, 1915, St. Marylebone, London, England.
Elliott became a chorister at Leamington Parish Church, and later played the organ at Leamington Chapel, Heaton Hall, Banbury Parish Church (two years) and at St. Mary, Bolton, Brampton. In 1862 he moved to London and was at All Saints, St. John’s Wood and finally St. Mark, Hamilton Square, London, spending 36 years there and resigning two years before his death. He compiled a book of nursery rhymes, and was musical editor of Church Hymns, 1874, having been invited by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. He wrote hymn tunes, anthems and two operettas. His Hybreas the Cretan was a popular song of his generation.