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ELTON, CHARLES ISAAC (1839–1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELTON, See also:CHARLES See also:ISAAC (1839–1900) , See also:English lawyer and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Southampton on the 6th of See also:December 1839. Educated at See also:Cheltenham and Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, he was elected a See also:fellow of See also:Queen's College in 1862. He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1865. His remarkable knowledge of old real See also:property See also:law and See also:custom helped him to an extensive See also:conveyancing practice and he took See also:silk in 1885. He sat in the See also:House of See also:Commons for See also:West See also:Somerset in 1884–1885 and from 1886 to 1892. In 1869 he succeeded to his See also:uncle's property of Whitestaunton, near See also:Chard, in Somerset. During the later years of his See also:life he retired to a See also:great extent from legal practice, and devoted much of his See also:time to See also:literary See also:work. He died at Whitestaunton on the 23rd of See also:April 'goo. Elton's See also:principal See also:works were The Tenures of See also:Kent (1867); See also:Treatise on Commons and See also:Waste Lands (1868); Law of Copyholds (1874); Origins of English See also:History (1882); Custom and See also:Tenant Right (1882).

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