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Friday, June 30, 2023

Harold Daniel Hope Elletson 1960-2023

 Harold Daniel Hope Elletson, who died 23 June, 2023, aged 62, was head of that landed gentry family, of Parrox Hall, Lancashire.

Elletson unsuccessfully contested Burnley for the Conservative Party in the 1987 general election, before becoming Member of Parliament for Blackpool North in 1992. However, in his 1997 bid for re-election in the new Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency, he lost to Labour's Joan Humble by 8,946 votes.

He was born 8 December, 1960, son of Wing Commander Daniel Hope Elletson, RAFVR (1907-1984), abd his wife the former Coral Violet Peake Cottam (1925-2004); and married 1987 (div 2007), Fiona Margaret Ferguson, daughter of Ian Ferguson, by whom he had two sons, Alexander (born 1991), and George (born 1997).

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