Edward William Elton

(1794-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elton, E. W. (Edward William), 1794-1843 NRA: Elton Edward William (1794-1843) Actor DNB: Elton, Edward William [real name Edward William Elt] (1794–1843), actor LBT ID: EdElton1843 VIAF ID: 35811360 LOC ID: n82201895	B/BAP: 1794-08 DIED: 1843-07-18
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English actor, originally Elt; after a provincial career he performed at Covent Garden and Drury Lane in the 1830s; he drowned in a steamboat accident.
REFERENCES TO Edward William Elton: Samuel Laman Blanchard to Peter George Patmore, 6 August 1843 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 3 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Laman Blanchard III