Peter Charles Eliot was born on 30th Oct 1910, and educated at Wellington and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1934 he was admitted as a solicitor, and later that year commissioned into the Kent Yeomanry, in which he went on to serve throughout the Second World War. Eliot went to France with the BEF in late 1939. After Dunkirk in 1940 he was posted to Iraq, and later saw action in North Africa, including Alamein, and Italy, becoming regimental 2IC. In 1945 he was appointed MBE and awarded the TD. After the war he returned to legal practice, but remained in the TA, commanding the Kent Yeomanry from 1949 to 1952. Later he took Holy Orders and became the Archdeacon of Worcester in 1961. When he retired in 1975 he became the honorary curate in the parish of Kingsland, near Leominster. He died in 1995 aged 85.