Godfrey Elton, First Baron Elton of Headington
Godfrey Elton, first Baron Elton of Headington (1892–1973) was a historian. He was born at Sherington rectory in Newport Pagnell, the eldest child of Edward Fiennes Elton and Violet Hylda, who was the daughter of the Revd Carteret John Halford Fletcher, rector of Carfax church, Oxford.
Elton obtained a first in classical honour moderations at Balliol College in 1913, and then went on to read History. He never took his finals, however, as in 1914 he was commissioned into the 4th Hampshire regiment and served in Mesopotamia.
In 1919 Elton was elected to a fellowship in Modern History at The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Around this time Elton joined the Labour Party, but failed to get elected as an MP for Thornbury in Gloucestershire.
In 1928 Elton came to live at Greenways at 40 Osler Road (then called Manor Road). He was a strong admirer of the prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, and in 1934 he was created Baron Elton of Headington. He moved from Osler Road in about 1946.
Lord Elton died at the Dower House in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire on 18 April 1973. His son Rodney succeeded him as the second Baron Elton of Headington.
Note that there is a fuller entry on Baron Elton of Headington in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography