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Sir Henry Elliot (1817–1907) was a noted british diplomat. He was the second son of Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound. He was most noted for his period as ambassador at Constantinople. Elliot took a pro-Turkish line despite the ‘Bulgarian atrocities’.

He argued in a dispatch he made on 4th September 1876 that British interests in not preventing changes in the Turkish empire were not affected by the question whether it was 10,000 or 20,000 persons who perished in the suppression. As a result of unpopularity of his pragmatism in the face of attrocities he was relocatted to Vienna in 1877.

He died at his home in Wantage Ardington House in 1907.