ELTON

elton, charles isaac (1839-1900), english lawyer and antiquary, was born at southampton on the 6th of december 1839. educated at cheltenham and balliol college, oxford, he was elected a fellow of queen's college in 1862. he was called to the bar at lincoln's inn in 1865. his remarkable knowledge of old real property law and custom helped him to an extensive conveyancing practice and he took silk in 1885. he sat in the house of commons for west somerset in 1884-1885 and from 1886 to 1892. in 1869 he succeeded to his uncle's property of whitestaunton, near chard, in somerset. during the later years of his life he retired to a great extent from legal practice, and devoted much of his time to literary work. he died at whitestaunton on the 23rd of april 1900. elton's principal works were _the tenures of kent_ (1867); _treatise on commons and waste lands_ (1868); _law of copyholds_ (1874); _origins of english history_ (1882); _custom and tenant right_ (1882). eltville (elfeld), a town of germany, in the prussian province of hesse-nassau, on the right bank of the rhine, 5 m. s.w. from wiesbaden, on the railway frankfort-on-main-cologne, and with a branch to schlangenbad. pop. 3700. it has a roman catholic and a protestant church, ruins of a feudal castle, a latin school, and a monument to two manufactories of sparkling wines. eltville (originally _adeldvile_, lat. _altavilla_) is first mentioned in a record of the year 882. it was given by the emperor otto i. to the archbishops of mainz, who often resided here. it received town rights in 1331 and was a place of eltville, under the patronage of archbishop adolphus of nassau, shortly afterwards handing over its use to the brothers heinrich and nikolaus bechtermunz. several costly early examples of printed books issued by this press survive, the earliest being the _vocabularium latino-teutonicum_, first printed in 1467.