1020 Hugh Elliott

Constituency : North  Ayrshire  1885-92  ( from  1886  Liberal  Unionist )

Hugh  took  North  Ayrshire  from  the  Tories.

Hugh  was  an  old-fashioned  Whig  candidate, the  son  of  Earl  Minto  and  connected  to  the  Russells. He  was  educated  at  Cambridge. He  worked  as  a  clerk  to  the  Commons  and  then  as  private  secretary  to  William  Adam  between  1873  and  1874.

Hugh  defected  to  the  Liberal  Unionists  in  1886  and  switched  to  the  Glasgow  Rollox  constituency for  the  1892  election  but  was  defeated.

He  died  in  1932  aged  84.