Duncan Elliot

Duncan Elliot (October 1, 1862 – November 2, 1919) and Sally (née Duncan) Elliot (1834–1888). His father was a prominent physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York. After his father's death in 1871, he mother remarried to Jacob Post Giraud Foster (1827–1886). His brother was Richard Elliot.

Career After graduating from Columbia University in 1884, Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

During their marriage, his wife occupied Dellmain Cottage on Narragansett Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, before purchasing the William Starr-Miller place on Bellevue Avenue. The Miller home, a French Norman-style "cottage", was commissioned by William Starr Miller II and designed by Miller's brother-in-law, Whitney Warren (a partner in Warren and Wetmore) and named High Tide, with interiors by noted designer Ogden Codman.

Personal life On September 15, 1891, Elliot was married to heiress Sallie Jeannette Hargous at All Saints' Memorial Church in Newport. Sallie, who was described as "the handsomest, richest, brightest, gayest, most admired young women in the upper-most circles of society", Nina Hargous Appleton, and Anita Hargous de Forest, Sallie and Duncan, "the tall blonde athlete" were introduced by her brother at an "Apple Blossom Ball" in 1890. Together, they were the parents of three children, all boys:

Duncan Elliot Jr. (b. 1893), who became a naturalized British subject and married the English born Miriam Stammers. Giraud Elliot, who left Harrow to enlist and fight in World War I. He received the Military Cross for gallantry under fire in 1917. He later married the American, Elizabeth Sands.

In 1901, after several years of rumors, and much speculation in the media regarding his drunkenness and philandering, his wife filed for divorce. After their divorce, his former wife remarried to Woodbury Kane in 1905, a few months before his death. After his death, Elliot reportedly tried to get Sallie to remarry him, but she refused and instead, married Douglas Howard Gill of the British Army.

In poor health, Elliot committed suicide in Annapolis, Maryland, on November 2, 1919. After a service at St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church in Annapolis, he was buried in at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.