Charlie Elliott

Charles Standish Elliott (24 April 1912 – 1 January 2004) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1932 and 1953, an international umpire and a part-time footballer.

Elliott was born in Bolsover, Derbyshire. In the 1931–1932 season, he played football for Coventry City, where he was a capable defender, but did not play again for them for several years. In the summer of 1932, he began his cricketing career at Derbyshire where he was an opening batsman and fine close fielder.

Elliott's first spell for Derbyshire lasted from 1932 to 1937 and he played for the side that won the County Championship in 1936. Because of a financial crisis at the club, he was released and became a professional for Stourbridge. At the start of the Second World War he joined the Coventry Fire Brigade and was on the roof of Coventry Cathedral during the blitz which destroyed it.

After the war, he played again for Derbyshire and scored 1,000 runs in six consecutive seasons from 1947 to 1952. In total he played 468 innings in 275 matches with nine centuries and an average of 27.25. His best score was 215 against Nottinghamshire in 1947, when he shared a stand of 349 with John Eggar. In bowling, he took eleven wickets at an average of 47.81 and a best performance of 2–25.

A dapper man with immaculately groomed black hair, which he retained into old age, he died at Nottingham, where he had kept a guest house, eight years short of his century.

Elliott was the nephew of Harry Elliott, the Derbyshire and England Test wicketkeeper and played alongside his uncle in pre-Second World War games and in 1947, when Harry reappeared in four matches at the age of 55 because of a Derbyshire injury crisis.