Thomas Frederick Elliot
1808–80
Civil servant. Junior clerk in the Colonial Office, 1825; senior clerk, 1833; secretary to the Earl of Gosford’s commission of inquiry into Canadian affairs in Québec, 1835–7; agent-general for emigration, 1837; under-secretary of state, 1847; retired, 1868. Vice-president of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1876. Friend of John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. Knighted, 1869.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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