Charles Elgar

Charles Chapman Elgar (1855 – 19 April 1930) was a wealthy New Zealand entrepreneur and the husband of wealthy socialite Ella Elgar (1869–1945).

Biography Elgar's former home Fernside Homestead near Featherston in 2015 He was a director of the National Bank of New Zealand and the chairman of the Wellington Meat Export Company, Ltd. He was also a well-known owner of racehorses. He lived at Fernside Homestead, a 1,134-acre estate near Featherston. He also owned Clay Creek Estate outside of Martinborough.

In 1890 he married Ella Pharazyn who had been born into one of the Wairarapa's wealthiest colonial families a family who had built their fortune on sheep farming. They had one daughter, Enid Awa Elgar, who married Gilbert Claud Hamilton, the son of Lord Claud Hamilton. His daughter died in 1916 aged 25.

Elgar had racehorses and in 1923, his colt Black Ronald won the New Zealand Derby. His wife, Ella, half-sister of Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Pharazyn, died fifteen years later in her flat in Victoria Street, Christchurch, on 23 August 1945.