| In a month he had passed his first examinations and was made a sizar. |
| Sizar Elliott, who pioneered meat canning in Australia, was born in Essex in 1814 and brought up in New Brunswick. |
| 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. |
| As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. |
| From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University. |
| He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book. |
