page_title: Sydney Robert Elliston
section_title: Ripon Cathedral
hierarchical_section_title: Sydney Robert Elliston / Work / Ripon Cathedral
caption_attribution_description: English: The Minster from the north west A Harrogate borough council worker tends the flower beds just across the road from the minster.
context_page_description: Canon Sydney Robert Elliston MA was a journalist, vicar, and canon of Ripon Cathedral. Two of his brothers were William Rowley Elliston and George Elliston MP. He was involved with the formation of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance in 1913, and was its secretary from 1914 to 1935. At his funeral it was said of him that, "The diocese of Ripon owed a great debt to the work of Canon Elliston in laying down sound principles of Church finance." While looking after the finances of Ripon diocese, he was at the same time vicar of one of north-east England's Barber churches: the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, designed by William Swinden Barber.
context_section_description: He sat on the 1912 Commission which considered the reorganisation of church finance as recommended by the archbishops. This led to the formation of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance in which he was closely involved from 1913. He was its clerical secretary 1914–1918, and from 1928 to 1935. He was general secretary 1918–1928. He was associated with the Ripon Diocesan Queen Victoria Clergy Fund, and was official secretary of Ripon diocese Church Building Society from 1914. In his obituary, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer reported that Mr A.B. Leigh, secretary of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance, said that, "The diocese of Ripon owed a great debt to the work of Canon Elliston in laying down sound principles of Church finance, and the clergy of the diocese were indebted to him for his interest in the improvement in their incomes." He was honorary canon of Ripon Cathedral and proctor convocation of Ripon from 1921, and canon in 1928. He was clerk to the Darnborough fund 1921–1939. At his retirement from Killinghall he was made canon emeritus. By 1935 his benefice had been increased by 1.25 acres of glebe land to the value of £4. His ecclesiastical commission was £400, and fees £4, so his net income was £408 plus the vicarage. One reason for this was that he had extra responsibilities and the parish population had risen to 1098.
caption: Ripon Cathedral
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