George Thomson Elliot, an American physician, born in New York, May 11, 1827, died there, Jan. 29, 1871. He received his academic education at Columbia college, graduated in medicine at the university of New York in 1849, and subsequently spent three years in professional study abroad, during which period he was resident interne in the lying-in hospital of Dublin, and of the royal maternity hospital in Edinburgh. Upon his return in 1852 he was made resident physician to the New York lying-in asylum, and in 1854 attending physician to the Bellevue hospital. In 1858 and 1859 he was lecturer on operative midwifery in the college of physicians and surgeons, New York, and in 1861 became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the Bellevue hospital medical college, an institution of which he was one of the founders. He wrote much for medical journals, but his principal work was " Obstetric Clinic" (1868), giving the results of midwifery cases selected from his own practice. On June 26, 1870, he had a severe attack of apoplexy with hemiplegia, which came on while he was engaged upon a case of operative midwifery.

From this he partially recovered, but on Jan. 28, 1871, he had a second attack, which proved fatal.