William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth
- William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth
Robert William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth (born 11 December 1920), known as William Elliott, is a British Conservative Party politician.
His Father Robert Elliot known as 'Dick' was a former councillors and a couple of times mayor of morpeth.
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North at a by-election in 1957, and held the seat until his retirement at the 1983 general election.
From 1958 Elliott was a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS), serving until 1964, when he was appointed an opposition whip, and he became a government whip when the Conservatives regained power in 1970.
Elliot was a Vice-Chairman of Conservative Party from 1970 to 1974. He was knighted in 1974, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria in 1982.
In May 1985, he was made a life peer as Baron Elliott of Morpeth, of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland and of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne and took his his seat in the House of Lords, where he was Deputy Speaker from 1992 to 2002 and Deputy Chair of Committees from 1997 to 2002.
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