Elliott Graham Colvin

Elliott Graham Colvin (1836–1883) was a British Indian Civil Service (ICS) Officer. He served in Mathura and Meerut during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and later became Meerut's Commissioner. After his death, a gate was erected in his memory in Bulandshahr on the instructions of Frederic Growse.

Early life and family Elliott Colvin was born in 1836 in Calcutta, now Kolkata, to John Russell Colvin. His siblings included Auckland Colvin and Walter Colvin. In 1850 he became a naval cadet. He was educated at Eton and from 1853 to 1855 was at Haileybury.

On 18 September 1862 in Nainital, he married Edith, the eldest daughter of Peter Cunningham. The Times of India later noted that "he was peculiarly happy in his married life". In November 1856 he was attached to the North-West Provinces where he was posted assistant in the Agra division and then assistant magistrate and collector to Agra. He also became well known at Budaun. Between 1857 and 1878, he also held various posts at Meerat, Bareilly, Moradabad, Benares. He was buried at Meerut cemetery.

Following his death, a gate in his memory was constructed at a cost of 4,000 rupees at the east wall of Moti Bagh in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, at the instruction of Frederic Growse. Growse wrote in his 1884 book Bulandshahr; or, Sketches of an Indian district; social, historical and architectural that Colvin's "sudden untimely death, on the 3rd November 1883, was deeply felt by all classes of the community".

Colvin gate