Motor racing driver. Born Count William Elliott Morris Zborowski de Montsaulvain, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, USA, of Polish parents. He married Margaret Laura Carey, the grand-daughter of William Backhaus Astor in 1878, and lived mostly in Britain, with a home at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He eventually became a naturalised Briton. He loved racing Mercedes cars and was the moral victor of the 1902 Paris-Vienna race, and came 4th in the Circuit of the Ardennes. He entered his Mercedes 60 in the Nice (France) Week, which included the dangerous La Turbie hillclimb, wher a few years earlier Wilhelm Bauer had lost his life. Elliott started the hillclimb and a few bends later he was dead, having crashed into the self same rock that had earlier claimed Bauer's life. His passenger, the Marquis de Pollange, was thrown out and survived. Legend has it Elliott's cufflinks became jammed in the hand throttle.
Motor racing driver. Born Count William Elliott Morris Zborowski de Montsaulvain, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, USA, of Polish parents. He married Margaret Laura Carey, the grand-daughter of William Backhaus Astor in 1878, and lived mostly in Britain, with a home at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He eventually became a naturalised Briton. He loved racing Mercedes cars and was the moral victor of the 1902 Paris-Vienna race, and came 4th in the Circuit of the Ardennes. He entered his Mercedes 60 in the Nice (France) Week, which included the dangerous La Turbie hillclimb, wher a few years earlier Wilhelm Bauer had lost his life. Elliott started the hillclimb and a few bends later he was dead, having crashed into the self same rock that had earlier claimed Bauer's life. His passenger, the Marquis de Pollange, was thrown out and survived. Legend has it Elliott's cufflinks became jammed in the hand throttle.
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