Elsdon

Elsdon may be a given name, a surname, or a place name.

The surname derives originally from a place name (in Northumberland, England) with the meaning in Old English of Elli's valley.

• Thomas Elsdon Ashford, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Elsdon Best, New Zealand ethnographer
• Janet Elsdon Mackey, New Zealand politician
• Elsdon Storey, Australian neurologist

• Lord Elsdon, judge, early nineteenth century
• Alan Elsdon (1934-2016), jazz musician
• William Elsdon (c. 1829 – 1904), Australian railway engineer

• In New Zealand:
  • Elsdon, New Zealand a suburb of Porirua
• In the United Kingdom:
  • Elsdon, Herefordshire
  • Elsdon, Northumberland
• In the United States:
  • West Elsdon, Chicago

• The Elsdon murder, an instructive tale in Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys
• The Elsdon Reel, a Northumberland traditional dance

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