James Elliott (medical administrator)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Sands Elliott GCStJ VD (28 May 1880 – 26 October 1959) was a New Zealand doctor, editor, medical administrator and writer.

[1] He was educated at Wellington College and spent a year at the University of Otago Medical School.

Graduating MB ChB in 1902, Elliott returned to New Zealand the following year and was the first house surgeon at Wellington Hospital.

On 12 December 1905, at Wellington, he was married by his father to Annie Allan Forbes from Edinburgh; they were going to have five children.

[2] He caused a stir by sending a telegram to the Defence Department, asking whether the Maheno's captain was subordinate to him.