ELTON, CHARLES ISAAC (1839-1900), English lawyer and antiquary, was born at Southampton on Dec. 6, 1839. He was educated at Cheltenham and Balliol college, Oxford, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's inn in 1865. He had a large con veyancing practice, took silk in 1885, and was M.P. for West Somerset. He died at Whitestaunton on April 23, 1900. His literary work, like his practice, was mainly concerned with old English real property law and custom. His best-known works are The Tenures of Kent (1867) ; Treatise on Commons and Waste Lands (1868) ; Law of Copyholds (1874) ; Origins of English History (1882).
See a memoir by Andrew Lang, prefixed to Elton's William Shakes peare, his Family and Friends (1904) •