Elliott, Howard Leslie

1877-1956. Originally an Australian, Elliott had several pastorates there, serving as Secretary of the Queensland Baptist Union 1906-1909. He then served as Pastor of the Mt Eden Baptist church in Auckland 1909-1917. He left the pastorate to serve as full-time organiser for the Protestant Political Association of New Zealand (P.P.A.) which he had founded. The P.P.A. was outspokenly anti-Catholic in its perspective and Elliott developed a reputation for sectarian extremism. This led to the Baptist Union increasingly distancing itself from him. The P.P.A. had huge publicity and huge membership (a claimed membership in 1919 of 200,000), but waned in the 1920s. Elliott subsequently founded the New Zealand Financial Times and had several company directorates. Ref.: DNZB.