The early history of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East to the end of A.D. 1814 (1896) by Charles Hole (online here).


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"ELLIOTT, Mr. Charles, born June 12, 1751. By his first wife Sarah Anne, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Sherman, he was the father of four surviving children. On December 10, 1785, he married, secondly. Miss Eling Venn, daughter of the Rev. Henry Venn, of Yelling, previously of Huddersfield. He carried on a very lucrative business as upholsterer to the King at 97 (now 104) New Bond Street. In 1793 he was residing at Paddington in a charming country villa, and was intimate with the Basil Woodds of Paddington Green, attending, we may be sure, Bentinck Chapel. At Michaelmas 1793 he removed his country abode to Clapham. Grove House was its name, and there his daughter Charlotte composed her celebrated hymn. The villa has disappeared, but the beginning of the carriage-drive which led to it out of the Old Town still survives between two private residences, one of which has taken the name of Grove House, No. 18 Old Town, the other being No. 16. There Mr. Elliott and his family were intimate with the Wilberforces, who lived at Broomfield, beyond the western end of the Common. Mr. Elliott had also a marine residence at Brighton, at the western end of it, Westfield Lodge, about the fourth house westward from the Battery. At Brighton he founded St. Mary's Chapel, of which, at its consecration in .January 1827, his son
Henry Venn Elliott became the first minister. Another of his sons was the Rev. Edward Bishop Elliott, author of Horae Apocalypticae. From his large family have descended several individuals of distinction and great worth. He died October 15, 1832, at the age of 81."


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"WOODD, Rev. Basil, born August -5, 1760, at Richmond, Surrey, of which both his parents were natives. About 1774 he was placed with the Rev. Thomas Clarke, of Chesham Bois, and graduated at Oxford from Trinity College, B.A. February 9, 1782 ; M.A. October 22, 1785. On August 10, 1784, he was chosen lecturer of St. Peter, Cornhill, his first London appointment. In February, 1785, he became morning preacher at Bentinck Chapel, and about the same time joined the Eclectic Society. In 1793 he purchased the lease of the Chapel. On April 5, 1808, he was instituted Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks, on the presentation of the Right Hon. Mary Manners, the wife of Lord Robert Manners. She was one of the Bentinck Chapel congregation. In January, 1831, with the consent of the patroness, he resigned the living to his son Charles, but continued his ministry at Bentinck until his death, April 12, 1831. He was buried in Paddington churchyard. Mr. Basil George Woodd, the eminent wine merchant of New Bond Street, and of Hillfield, Hampstead, who died August 28, 1872, aged 91, was his first cousin."