John Innes Elliott

John Innes Elliott CBE FRSA (13 November 1912 – 3 December 1989) was a British architect who, for twenty-seven years, was the surveyor and chief architect for the Metropolitan Police in London.

Born in Liverpool, Elliott trained at the Liverpool School of Architecture between 1930 and 1935, where he was tutored by Lionel Bailey Budden and Charles Herbert Reilly.

Elliott gained employment as an architectural assistant to a travel company in Wallasey,[1] which he coincided with his studies.

In the 1940s he moved to London where he was appointed the surveyor to the Metropolitan Police in 1947, after the retirement of Gilbert Mackenzie Trench two years previously.

Elliott was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1974 New Year Honours list and retired later that year, having completed his designs for the buildings within Hendon Police College, Colindale.