| Sizar Elliott, who pioneered meat canning in Australia, was born in Essex in 1814 and brought up in New Brunswick. |
| As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. |
| He entered college as a sizar, that is, in return for doing the work of a servant he received free board and lodging in his college. |
| He matriculated at the age of sixteen, and supported himself as a sizar at Pembroke College. |
| At first he was a sizar but from his second year onwards he received a full scholarship. |
| He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book. |
