Elsdon

Elsdon may be a given name, a surname, or a place name.

The surname derives originally from a place name (in Northumberland, England) with the meaning in Old English of Elli's valley.

Given name

• Thomas Elsdon Ashford, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Elsdon Best, New Zealand ethnographer
• Janet Elsdon Mackey, New Zealand politician
• Elsdon Storey, Australian neurologist

Surname

• Lord Elsdon, judge, early nineteenth century
• Alan Elsdon (1934-2016), jazz musician
• William Elsdon (c. 1829 – 1904), Australian railway engineer

Place name

• In New Zealand:
  • Elsdon, New Zealand a suburb of Porirua
• In the United Kingdom:
  • Elsdon, Herefordshire
  • Elsdon, Northumberland
• In the United States:
  • West Elsdon, Chicago

Other uses of Elsdon

• The Elsdon murder, an instructive tale in Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys
• The Elsdon Reel, a Northumberland traditional dance

1. Elsdon Tower
2. West Elsdon, Chicago
3. Elsdon Best
4. Elsdon, Northumberland
5. Harold Elsdon
6. Thomas Ashford
7. Elsdon Storey
8. Alan Elsdon
9. Elsdon Castle
10. William Elsdon
11. Matthew Elsdon
12. Elsdon, New Zealand
13. Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories
14. St Cuthbert's Church, Elsdon
15. Janet Mackey
16. Jazz
17. Whiro
18. Labia stretching
19. Northumberland
20. Old Sleaford