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Richmond times dis obituaries elliot11/9/2023 He was one of the first Australians to take a masters in business administration, also at Melbourne University. Elliott went to upmarket Carey Baptist Grammar School (motto: Courage and faith, and whose alumni include Peter Costello and Speaker Tony Smith) where he played football and cricket – and did enough study to win two prestigious scholarships to Melbourne University, where he graduated with a bachelor of commerce degree. The family moved from Williamstown, in Melbourne’s bayside west, to genteel East Kew after World War II. Elliott wasn’t talking but his then wife later offered: “We all have moments like that.”Įlliott was the first of three sons born to Frank and Anita Elliott. One rain-drenched Saturday morning in May 1995, a large pile of businessmen’s clothing – striped shirts, sports clothes, underwear, dark-blue suits, a pair of leather driving gloves and bathers – were dumped in the driveway of the couple’s Toorak home. He can talk to kings and queens or the men who take out the rubbish. His second wife, Amanda Drummond-Moray, once said: “I don’t know anybody in his position who relates to people across the board like he does. He commanded loyalty, especially at Carlton, and gave it in return. While he could be boorish, Elliott was mostly a companionable fellow who enjoyed a joke, a smoke and the company of like-minded larrikins. It has picked up four more since in an unusual period of failure many at Carlton still blame on Elliott, who presided over a player salary-rorts affair that was punished by the AFL when it stripped the club of draft selections. ![]() ![]() But the club, which had become accustomed to its winning ways in the 1970s and 80s, “won” the wooden spoon for the first time in 2002, Elliott’s last year as president. His love for the Navy Blues was never in doubt, and during his reign at Carlton it lifted two AFL premierships. He drank too much and when his record is examined, he was not much of a businessman, having made, but lost, a fortune.Īside from his damaged business reputation, Elliott was best known for his 20-year presidency of the Carlton Football Club. He could be blunt, confrontational and overbearing. He would demand Foster’s lager and meat pies when travelling first class on Qantas. ![]() John Elliott sometimes seemed to revel in uncouth behaviour.
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