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{{distinguish|Elliot Colvin (died 1940)}}
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|birth_place = Calcutta, [[British India]]
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'''Elliott Graham Colvin''' (1836–1883) was a British [[Indian Civil Service]] (ICS) Officer. He served in [[Mathura]] and [[Meerut]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] and later became Meerut's [[Indian Civil Service#Salary and ranks|Commissioner]]. After his death, a gate was erected in his memory in [[Bulandshahr]] on the instructions of [[Frederic Growse]].

==Early life and family==
Elliott Colvin was born in 1836 in Calcutta, now Kolkata, to [[John Russell Colvin]].<ref name=census1851>{{cite web |title=1851 England; Buckinghamshire|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/BKMHO107_1718_1719-0024?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=3950797|access-date=11 March 2023|work=The National Archives of the UK (TNA)|location=Kew, Surrey|date=1951|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=NMGWCUS1880>{{cite news |title=Notices |work= Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service|date=30 June 1880|page=511|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001681/18800630/036/0013|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref>{{efn|Of the same name was Sir Elliot Graham Colvin, born in 1861 and died in 1940.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Elliot Graham Colvin - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp79373/sir-elliot-graham-colvin?search=sas&sText=elliot |website=www.npg.org.uk |access-date=11 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>}} His siblings included [[Auckland Colvin]] and [[Walter Mytton Colvin|Walter Colvin]].<ref name=ToI1883/><ref name=NMGWCUS30June1880>{{cite news |title=Notices|work= Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service|date=30 June 1880|page=511|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001681/18800630/036/0013|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1850 he became a naval cadet.<ref name=DTCPGA1850>{{cite news |title=Naval promotions |work= Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser|date=18 May 1850|page=3|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002044/18500518/019/0003|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and from 1853 to 1855 was at [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury]].<ref name=Danvers>{{Cite book |last=Danvers |first=Frederick Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsoldhai00collgoog/page/458/mode/2up?q=Colvin |title=Memorials of Old Haileybury College |last2=Monier-Williams |first2=Sir Monier |last3=Bayley |first3=Sir Steuart Colvin |last4=Wigram |first4=Percy |last5=Sapte |first5=Brand |date=1894 |publisher=A. Constable |language=en|page=461}}</ref><ref name=ToI1883>{{cite news |title=The late Mr. Colvin |work= The Times of India |date=9 November 1883|page=8|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002850/18831109/076/0003|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Eton1850>{{cite web |title=Eton School Lists, 1791-1850 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/11584:34790|access-date=11 March 2023|location=London|date=1850|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

On 18 September 1862 in [[Nainital]], he married Edith, the eldest daughter of Peter Cunningham.<ref name=MA1862>{{cite news |title=Marriages |work= Morning Advertiser|date=15 November 1862|page=8|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18621115/059/0008|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xd8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA770 |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=1862 |publisher=John Henry and James Parker |location=London |pages=770 |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|She later moved back to England and died there in 1914.<ref name=Cen1911>{{cite web |title=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911|publisher=The National Archives of the UK|location=Kew, Surrey, England|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2352/images/rg14_00442_0559_03?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=1404012|access-date=15 March 2023 |work=1939 England and Wales Register|date=1911|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Prob1914>{{cite web |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/1125472:1904|access-date=13 March 2023 |work=1914 England and Wales Register|date=1911|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref>}} ''[[The Times of India]]'' later noted that "he was peculiarly happy in his married life".<ref name=ToI1883/> He learnt French, German and Russian, and was familiar with several Northern Indian dialects.<ref name=ToI1883/>

==Career==
Colvin returned to India on 6 November 1855.<ref name=NWPOfficers1881>{{cite book |author=Govt. Sectt., N.W.P. and Oudh |title=History of services of gazetted officers employed under the government of the N.W.P. and Oudh |date=1881 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Govt. Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofservice00alla/page/20/mode/2up?q=Colvin|pages=20-21}}</ref> In November 1856 he was attached to the [[North-West Provinces]] where he was posted assistant in the Agra division and then assistant magistrate and collector to Agra.<ref name=NWPOfficers1881/> In May 1857, at the onset of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], he was transferred to [[Mathura]].<ref name=ToI1883/><ref name=NWPOfficers1881/> He fought at [[Hathras]], [[Aligarh]] and the surrounding areas.<ref name=HMICE1877>{{cite news |title=Notices |work= Homeward Mail from India, China and the East|date=22 December 1877|page=1317|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001712/18771222/012/0005|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Danvers1894>{{cite book |last1=Danvers |first1=Frederick Charles |last2=Martineau |first2=Harriet |last3=Monier-Williams |first3=Monier |last4=Bayley |first4=Steuart Colvin |last5=Wigram |first5=Percy |last6=Sapte |first6=Brand |title=Memorials of old Haileybury College |date=1894 |publisher=Westminster, A. Constable and Company |page=591 |url=http://archive.org/details/memorialsoldhai00collgoog}}</ref> He also became well known at [[Budaun]].<ref name=ToI1883/> He spent a few months at [[Meerut]] before being appointed as superintendent of the [[Terai|Terai District]] towards [[Rohilkhand]].<ref name=ToI1883/><ref name=BG1861>{{cite news |title=Bengal: from the calcutta and government gazette |work= Bombay Gazette|date=19 April 1861|page=370|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002920/18610419/020/0002|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Between 1857 and 1878, he also held various posts at Meerat, Bareilly, Moradabad, [[Varanasi|Benares]].<ref name=NWPOfficers1881/>

In 1880 Colvin held posts in [[Muzaffarnagar]] and Benares.<ref name=NMGWCUS1880/><ref name=NWPOfficers1881/> Later, he became settlement officer, collector and commissioner back at Meerut.<ref name=ToI1883/> There, he led the search for European graves and commissioned maintenance of the burial sites.<ref name=HMICE1877/>

==Death and legacy==
At the age of 47, Colvin's health began to deteriorate.<ref name=ToI1883/> He died of "inflammation of the lungs" on 3 November 1883 at [[Sahanpur]], and his body was taken to Meerut.<ref name=ToI1883/><ref name=EO1883>{{cite news |title=News of the week|work= Englishman's Overland Mail|date=13 November 1883|page=1|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002921/18831113/005/0001|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Prob.1850>{{cite web |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/2745714:1904|access-date=11 March 2023|work=Principal Probate Registry|location=London|date=1884|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was buried at Meerut cemetery.<ref name=ToI1883/> At Meerut, he was succeeded by Mr. Quinton, a member of the [[Imperial Legislative Council|Viceregal Council]].<ref name=EM1883>{{cite news |title=Indian items |work= Evening Mail|date=24 December 1883|page=1|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003187/18831224/007/0001|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Following his death, a gate in his memory was constructed at a cost of 4,000 rupees at the east wall of Moti Bagh in [[Bulandshahr]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], at the instruction of [[Frederic Growse]].<ref name=Growse1884>{{Cite book |last=Growse |first=Frederic Salmon |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNKVY1WkfCIC&pg=PA70 |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |publisher=Medical Hall Press |year=1884 |chapter=III. The rebuilding of Bulandshahr |pages=70|language=en}}</ref> Growse wrote in his 1884 book ''[[Bulandshahr; or, Sketches of an Indian district; social, historical and architectural]]'' that Colvin's "sudden untimely death, on the 3rd November 1883, was deeply felt by all classes of the community".<ref name=Growse1884/> An illustration of the gate was planned for inclusion in the second part of Growse's ''Indian Architecture of To-day as Exemplified in New Buildings in the Bulandshahr District''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Growse |first=Frederic Salmon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT25 |title=Indian Architecture of To-day as Exemplified in New Buildings in the Bulandshahr District. Part I |date=1885 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=25 |language=en}}</ref>

===Colvin gate===
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File:Colvin Gate, front.png|Facing market
File:Colvin Gate, Bulandshahr.png|Facing Moti Bagh
File:Colvin Gate memorial, Bulandshahr.png|Memorial plaque facing Moti Bagh
File:Colvin gate side.jpg|Inside arch
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[[Category:19th-century British civil servants]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
[[Category:People from Kolkata]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857]]

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