Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot KCB (12 December 1818 – 21 May 1895) was a Royal Navy officer.

[1] Elliott became commodore on the East Indies and China Station, with his broad pennant in the screw gunboat HMS Haughty, in January 1855.

[1] In October 1856 a small unit of Chinese soldiers boarded the British-flagged lorcha Arrow and kidnapped twelve of the crew so initiating the Second Opium War.

[2] In response the Commander-in-Chief on the East Indies and China Station, Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, decided to enter Canton.

[2] Elliot also took part in the larger action, under Commodore Henry Keppel, involving around 100 war-junks at the Battle of Fatshan Creek in June 1857.

[4] Promoted to rear admiral on 5 August 1861,[5] Elliot became Commander-in-Chief, South East Coast of America Station, with his broad pennant in the second-rate HMS Bombay, in April 1864.