At the age of 22 in 1896, Elliott was the sole member of the British weightlifting team at the first Olympic games of the modern era. Elliott won the gold medal for the one-handed weightlifting event. Thought to be thoroughly English and an aristocrat by birth, his mother was actually Scottish and he was born in the colony of India.

Elliott d isplays his fine physique about 1910
on a nickelodeon card.

Nickelodeons were the Victorian equal to our "video arcades" of today. For a penny or a nickel, you could play various machines which could play music on a piano, tell your fortune, or dispense a trading card like this one.