William Elliston
William Elliston, D.D. was an academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Elliston was born at Great Bardfield and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1758 to 1760; and Master of Sidney from 1860 until his death on 11 February 1807. He was twice Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge: from 1763 to 1764, and 1786 to 1787. Elliston was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1759 and was Rector of Keyston from 1764 until his death.
