Item 1 - Memories of My Father

Edmund Alfred Elliott, born 12 September 1884 in Hobart, was the son of Robert Elliott and Sophia Hazell. After a number of years clerical work, Edmund enrolled at Sydney University, graduating in 1918 as a medical practitioner. He married Doris Merchant in Brisbane and they returned to Tasmania where Edmund took over Dr Gibson's practice in Macquarie Street, Hobart. Edmund and Doris had five children, one of whom, David Macmillan Elliott wrote a history of Edmund Alfred Elliott and the Elliot family. Edmund had a keen interest in the natural sciences and was a founding member of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club in 1904. He died in 1968.