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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''John Bardoe Elliott''', (1785 – Aug. 26 1863) was a civil servant in [[Colonial India]]. He is best known for his collection of oriental manuscripts that he donated to the [[Bodleian Library]] at the [[University of Oxford]] in 1859.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Elliott was born in 1785 in [[Ripon]], [[Yorkshire]], the son of John E. Elliott, a naval officer, and Isabella (Todd) Elliott.<ref>John Bardoe Elliott (1785 - 1863) WIKI Tree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Elliott-16333 (date accessed :20/10/2020).</ref><br />
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==India==<br />
Elliott travelled to India in 1800 and spent more that 50 years there. He served as a judge in [[Patna]] in 1822-28 then later as the resident there, retiring in 1845. He died in [[Patna]] on August 26th, 1863.<ref>"Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries," <i>Yorkshire Gazette</i> (York, England) 45, No. 2304 (Saturday, Oct. 31, 1863): 3.</ref> <br />
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== Collections ==<br />
Elliott acquired many of the manuscripts collected by [[Gore Ouseley]]. The Ouseley manuscripts were not kept separately by Elliott, so that provenance cannot be distinguished fully among the Oxford collections.<ref>Description of 'John Bardoe Elliott, Persian manuscripts collected by John Bardoe Elliott, including many items formerly belonging to Sir Gore Ouseley, 15th-19th century. [[Bodleian Library]], [[University of Oxford]]. GB 161 MSS. ELLIOT' on the Archives Hub website, [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb161-mss.elliot], (date accessed :20/10/2020).</ref> The Elliott manuscripts are described in the catalogue published in 1889.<ref>Eduard Sachau, ''Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library'', ''Begun by Prof. Ed. Sachau, ... Continued, Completed and Edited by Hermann Ethé,'' ... Part I. the Persian Manuscripts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889). Available online: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766.</ref><br />
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==Research==<br />
Elliott was active as a researcher and published an article on a Buddhist inscription. <ref>J. B. Elliott, “Note on an Inscription found near the Kesariah Mound, in Tirhút”, ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal'' 4 (1835): 286.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/guides/middleeast] Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.<br />
* [https://www.fihrist.org.uk/?f%5Binstitution_sm%5D%5B%5D=Oxford+University&f%5Bms_collection_s%5D%5B%5D=Oriental+Manuscripts+Elliott+Collection&f%5Btype%5D%5B%5D=manuscript&per_page=100] FIHRIST : Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World, Oxford University, Collection Oriental Manuscripts, Elliott Collection (date accessed :20/10/2020).<br />
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