ELAM, Horace Dixon

Horace Dixon Elam (1851-1916) was a schoolmaster at St Paul’s School, London, when Charles Binyon was a pupil there.

Horace Elam was born in Marylebone in 1851, the second of three children of Benjamin Elam, a pharmaceutical chemist, and his wife, Elizabeth.  He was educated at St John’s College, Oxford, gaining BA in 1873 and MA in 1876.  From 1874 to 1879 he was Curate of St George, Campden Hill.  The 1881 census described him as “Clergyman without care, Assistant Classical Master (school)”, when he was lodging at Lee, Kent.  From the 1880s he was Assistant Master at St Paul’s School.

On 29th November 1902 at St Paul, Kilburn Square, Brent, Horace Elam, aged 52, married Elizabeth Bruce Robertson Kemp, 20 years his junior.  They had three children:  Horatia Lillias Mary (1904), Horace Edgar Hamilton (c1906) and Walter Bruce (1909).  They lived at 45 Carlisle Road, North Kensington, when their children were born.  At the time of the 1911 census Horace was described as a Schoolmaster and Clerk in Holy Orders and lived at 59 Cavendish Road, Brondesbury.

Reverend Dixon died on 30th April 1916 at the Colosseum Nursing Home, Middlesex.