Elmhurst Hall

The house was located approximately 1.5 miles north of the city of Lichfield.

This building replaced a smaller house on the site which had been occupied by his father Sir Theophilius Biddulph.

[1] Francis Perceval Eliot, the army officer and later writer, moved to Elmhurst Hall as a tenant in 1790.

In 1808, John Smith of Fenton bought a large part of the estate, including the site of the Hall, from Eliot who moved back to London.

In 1874 his trustees sold the hall to George Fox (a retired Manchester businessman).

In 1894 George Fox let the hall to the Duke of Sutherland so that he could entertain the Prince of Wales when he visited Lichfield for the centenary of the Staffordshire Yeomanry, which had been founded by Eliot in 1798.