Jesse Elliston

{{Short description|British businessman (1806–1853)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Jesse Elliston''' (3 March 1806<ref>''England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970''</ref> – 26 July 1853) was a proprietor of Elliston & Cavell, which became the leading department store in Oxford, England.

Elliston was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, to James and Mary Ann Elliston. He was baptised a Baptist. He owned a draper's shop in central Oxford when his sister, Sarah Elliston of Summertown in north Oxford, married John Cavell on 9 April 1835. As a result, Elliston made Cavell a partner of the shop, which then became known as Elliston & Cavell. It went on to become the largest department store in Oxford for many years, until its eventual conversion to a Debenhams store.

In 1853, after feeling unwell for a week, the 47-year-old Elliston collapsed and died suddenly while walking in the Banbury Road on his way to Summertown.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sudden Death of Mr. Jesse Elliston|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000989/18530730/033/0004 |accessdate=29 June 2018 |work=Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette |date=30 July 1853 |page=4}}</ref> Cavell subsequently took over the running of the shop.

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== External links == * [http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/cavell_john_1865_1879.html John Caldicott Cavell, Mayor of Oxford]

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