Baron Elton, of Headington in the County of Oxfordshire, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1934 for the historian Godfrey Elton. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
He was born at Sherington rectory in Newport Pagnell, the eldest child of Edward Fiennes Elton and Violet Hylda, who was the daughter of the Revd Carteret John Halford Fletcher, rector of Carfax church, Oxford.
In 1919 Elton was elected to a fellowship in Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Lord Elton died at the Dower House in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire on 18 April 1973.
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