George Elliston (politician)


Captain Sir George Sampson Elliston MC was Conservative Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1931 to 1945.
Ellison was educated at Ayerst Hall, Cambridge, Framlingham College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1901. However, he subsequently became a doctor by profession and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during and after the First World War.
First elected MP for Blackburn in 1931, Elliston was re-elected in 1935.