Robert Henry Elliot

Robert Henry Elliot, (1837 – 1914), was an early British coffee planter in Mysore, India, and author of books upon plantation life in Mysore.

According to Elliot's own account in "Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting In Mysore", he arrived in Bombay in 1855 at 18 years of age. From there he sailed to Mangalore, then headed inland through the ghauts to the high plateau of Mysore. There he joined Frederick Green, who had begun his plantation in 1843. The first European coffee plantation to its south had just started in 1854, while the second some 70 miles north was being established by three Scottish planters. In 1856 Elliot started his own plantation at Bartchinhulla, Saklaspur, Mysore State. (His address in Scotland was Clifton Park, Kelso, Roxburghshire.)

Selected works

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* "The experience of a planter in the jungles of Mysore", London : Chapman and Hall, 1871.
* "Concerning John’s Indian affairs", London, Chapman and Hall, 1872.
* "Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore", 1898.