Philip Eliot (bishop)
Philip Herbert Eliot was Bishop of Buckingham from 1921 to 1944.
Born on 20 September 1862[1] into an eminent ecclesiastical family, his father was the Very Rev. Philip Eliot, KCVO sometime Dean of Windsor. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College, Oxford[2] and ordained by the Bishop of Winchester in 1886.[3] After a curacy at Portsea, Portsmouth and spells as the incumbent at Winslow and Upton-cum-Chalvey he was appointed Rural Dean of Burnham before his ascension to the Episcopate. Described in hisTimes obituary as
A man of natural ability and sound judgement, strictly impartial in his decisions[4]
Eliot died on 1 April 1946.
Family
He married Ethel Myra Marshall in 1900 at Eton, and had one son, Philip Stirling Eliot (1901–1982).
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