CHARLES

See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

ISAAC

See also:

• CHARLES ISAAC ELTON (1839–1900)

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