Philip Eliot

Philip Herbert Eliot (20 September 1862 – 1 April 1946) was a British Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop of Buckingham from 1921 to 1944.

Birth and education Eliot was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family, the son of the Very Reverend Philip Eliot, KCVO sometime Dean of Windsor, and his first wife, Mary Anna Marriott Smith. He was born at Cally House, Kirkcudbrightshire, where his father was private chaplain.

He was educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College, Oxford.

Church career Eliot was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester in 1886. After a curacy at Portsea, Portsmouth, and spells as the incumbent at Winslow and Upton-cum-Chalvey he was appointed Rural Dean of Burnham before his elevation to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul 1921 (25 January) at Westminster Abbey.

He was described in his Times obituary as "A man of natural ability and sound judgement, strictly impartial in his decisions." His predecessor in office was Rear Admiral Sir Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield,