Richard Elvet was an English priest in the early 15th century.[1]
Elvet was born in Durham and was in the service of John of Gaunt.[2] He succeeded his brother John as Archdeacon of Leicester in 1404. In 1424 he exchanged the Archdeaconry with John Legbourne for the benefice of Sedgefield.
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