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.