Cornelius Elliot of Woollee

(1733-1821)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elliot, Cornelius, 1732-1821 LBT ID: CoEllio1821 VIAF ID: 44163773 LOC ID: nr92027716	B/BAP: 1733-04-13 DIED: 1821-03-09
SOURCES: George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 209; Edinburgh Magazine 87 (March 1821) 226; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh; in 1765 he married Margaret Rannie (d. 1796). The journalist William Jerdan studied law with him.
REFERENCES TO Cornelius Elliot of Woollee: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 3: ¶ n2 ¶ 18 ¶ n2 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 3: Boyhood Found 1: ¶ 6 Ch. 7: Edinburgh Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 8: Edinburgh Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Ch. 9: Excursion Found 1: ¶ 1