Andrew Charles Elliott

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Andrew Charles Elliott
4th Premier of British Columbia
In office February 1, 1876 – February 11, 1874
Preceded by	George Anthony Walkem
Succeeded by	George Anthony Walkem Robert Beaven (1882)

Born	c. 1828 Ireland
Died	April 9, 1889 San Francisco
Political party	None

Andrew Charles Elliott (Ireland c. 1828 – April 9, 1889 San Francisco) was a British Columbian politician and jurist. Elliott was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council from 1865 to 1866 and after the colony became a province of Canada he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet.

In 1876 Elliott became Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence but his government was unstable, was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa build a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.

Andrew Charles Elliott is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia.