George Elliott | |
Fullname: | George Stephenson Elliott |
Birth Date: | 1 June 1885 |
Birth Place: | Charlton, Victoria |
Death Place: | Menin Road Ridge, Passchendaele salient, Belgium |
Originalteam: | Ballarat College |
Statsend: | 1913 |
Years1: | 1905 |
Club1: | Fitzroy |
Games Goals1: | 1 (0) |
Years2: | 1908–1913 |
Club2: | University |
Games Goals2: | 79 (3) |
Games Goalstotal: | 80 (3) |
George Stephenson Elliott (1 June 1885 – 25 September 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The son of Thomas Elliott (1831–1911),[1] and his wife Helen Elliott (1849–1933), née Janvrin,[2] and the brother of AIF General Harold "Pompey" Elliott (1878–1931), and cousin of Admiral Sir Francis William Loftus Tottenham,[3] George Stephenson Elliott was born at Charlton, Victoria on 1 June 1885. He married Alice Evelyn "Lyn" Walker on 30 October 1915;[4] and they had a daughter, Jacquelyn Edmee (1916–1963), who later married John Edwin Fellows (1919–1995).[5] [6]
He was educated at Ballarat College and the University of Melbourne, and took a leading part in sport with both Ormond College and the university. He studied medicine, and graduated M.B.B.S. in September 1915.[7]
A defender, Elliott played one game for Fitzroy in 1905 before becoming a member of the inaugural University side when they joined the league in 1908. He captained the club in 1911 and 1912.[8]
Elliott was killed in World War I at the Menin Road Ridge, having previously been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.[9]