• Born 1 February 1799, youngest son of Charles Elliott the cabinet-maker (1752-1832) and his second wife Eling Venn (1758-1843).
• Expelled from Hammersmith school.
• Became midshipman on H.M.S. Peacock under Captain Richard Coote, who was engaged to Basil's sister Mary. Both men were lost at sea in ~1814.

"Another son 'Basil' entered the Navy - and the bright 'Middy' sailed away one day, full of hope, with one of the few godly Captains then to be found in Her Majesty's Service - who was engaged to his eldest sister Mary Sophia. But neither ever came back again - for the great ship went down in mid-ocean with all hands on board, and none was left to tell the tale." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott p2

"Nevertheless he did have one problem child—his youngest. In 1812 Basil Elliott, who was 13, was expelled from his school at Hammersmith. He became a midshipman under Capt. Coote, who was engaged to Basil's sister Mary. In 1813 they sailed in HMS Peacock for North America and were never heard of again. Thus Mary lost her brother and her fiancé at the same time. She later acted as amanuensis to Wilberforce but she never married." *Barton 1966

Surely named after Rev. Basil Woodd, a family friend (see *Hole 1896 p646).