Sir Daniel Eliott KCSI (3 March 1798 – 30 October 1872) was a Scottish civil servant in British India and governor of Madras.
having received a nomination for the East India Company's civil service, proceeded to Madras in 1817.
In December 1838 he was nominated, on account of his profound knowledge of the laws and customs of the Madras presidency, to be the Madras member of the Indian law commission then sitting at Calcutta under the presidency of Macaulay to draw up the Indian codes.
[1] On 15 February 1848, he was appointed a member of the council at Madras, and in 1850 became president of the revenue, marine, and college boards of that government, and he returned to England in 1853 on completing his five years in that office.
He accepted and remained in Calcutta as member of the legislative council until 1859 when he left India finally.