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ELIOT, EDWARD GRANVILLE, 3RD EARL OF ST. GERMANS, only son of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St. Germans, and his first wife Lady Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower, fourth dau. of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); b. 29 Aug 1798; adm. 3 Feb 1809; left 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1815; Secretary to Legation, Madrid 1823, Lisbon 1824; MP Liskeard Jan 1824-32 East Cornwall (Cons) 1837- 19 Jan 1845; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1827-30; Envoy Extraordinary to Spain 1834, where he induced the Royalists and Carlists to make the “Eliot Convention” for the humaner treatment of their prisoners; Chief Secretary for Ireland Sep 1841 - Jan 1845; Privy Councillor 3 Sep 1841; Postmaster-General Jan - Jul 1846; although a Conservative politician up to 1846, he followed Sir Robert Peel over the abolition of the Corn Laws and held office under subsequent Peelite and Liberal Prime Ministers; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Dec 1852- Feb 1855; Lord Steward of the Household 1857-8, 1859-66; GCB 24 Jan 1857; DL Cornwall 1841; Hon. LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 20 Nov 1841; m. 2 Sep 1824 Lady Jemima Cornwallis, third dau. of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquis Cornwallis; d. 7 Oct 1877. DNB.

ELLIS, JOHN, eldest son of Rev. John Ellis, Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks., and Susannah, dau. of William Welbore, Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1664, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1664-81, Faculty Student from 1681; BA 1668; MA 1672 (both degrees in College Act Book, not in University records); employed in Secretary of State’s Office and State Paper Office; Secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins at Conference of Nijmegen 1675-7; Secretary to Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory 1678-80 and to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 1680-2; Secretary to Commissioners of Revenue, Ireland 1682-9; a Commissioner of Transports; Under Secretary of State May 1695 - May 1705; Comptroller of the Mint 23 May 1701-11; MP Harwich 1702-8; two volumes of his correspondence were edited by George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (qv); at the time of his death he had been a Student of Christ Church for over seventy-three years; d. unm. 8 Jul 1738. DNB.

ELLIS, WELBORE, 1ST BARON MENDIP, younger son of Welbore Ellis (qv); b. 15 Dec 1713; adm. Jul 1727; KS (Capt. ) 1728; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1732, matr. 15 Jun 1732, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1732 - resignation 25 Apr 1739; BA 1736; DCL 7 Jul 1773; inherited fortune of his uncle John Ellis (KS 1660, qv) in 1738; Grand Tour (Italy) 1739-40; MP Cricklade 24 Dec 1741-7, Weymouth 1747-61, Aylesbury 1761-8, Petersfield 1768-74, Weymouth 1774-90, Petersfield 29 Apr 1791- 13 Aug 1794; an active and useful member of the House of Commons; a Lord of the Admiralty 1747-55; Vice-Treasurer for Ireland 1755-62; Privy Councillor 20 Mar 1760; Secretary at War 1762-5; Vice-Treasurer of Ireland (again) 1765-6, 1770-7; Treasurer of the Navy 12 Jun 1777 – Apr 1782; Secretary of State for the American Colonies 11 Feb - Mar 1782; created Baron Mendip 13 Aug 1794, with special remainder to his great-nephew Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (qv); member, Society of Dilettanti 1740/1; FRS 20 Jun 1745; Trustee of the British Museum 1780; Busby Trustee 25 Mar 1777; was accustomed to boast of having slept both in the Old Dormitory and in the New Dormitory; m. 1st, 18 Nov 1747 Elizabeth, only dau. of Hon. Sir William Stanhope KB MP; m. 2nd, 20 Jul 1765 Anne, eldest dau. of George Stanley, Paultons, Hampshire; d. 2 Feb 1802. Buried in North Transept, Westminster Abbery. DNB.

ELWES, JOHN, only son of Robert Meggott, Marcham, Berkshire, owner of brewery in Southwark, and Ann, dau. of Gervase Elwes MP; b. 7 Apr 1714; adm. Jun 1722; in school list 1729; Grand Tour (Geneva); “was the best runner and walker in the School, and became one of the best and most daring riders in Europe”; assumed surname and arms of Elwes in lieu of Meggott 1750; inherited Stoke College, Suffolk, estate of his uncle Sir Hervey Elwes, Bart., in 1763; MP Berkshire 30 Dec 1772-84; became notorious, probably unjustly, as a miser; d. unm. 26 Nov 1789. DNB.

Ensor, Alick Charles Davidson, son of Charles William Ensor MRCS LRCP, of Ealing, and Helen Margaret, d. of Rev. Alexander Glegg Creighton, Vicar of Holy Trinity Kilmarnock; b. 27 Nov. 1906; adm. Apr. 1920 (H); left July 1923; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1928; prosecuting solicitor Newcastle-on-Tyne 1932-5, Met. Police 1935-7; dep. Clerk of the Peace for Middx 1937-8; Clerk of the Peace for the County of London 1938-41; Army service 1939-44 (Capt.), despatches Dec. 1940; practised as solicitor in Brussels 1945-7; retd 1947 to farm in Dorset; MP (Lab.) Bury & Radcliffe 1964-70; subsequently a writer, lecturer and TV broadcaster; author of Thirty Acres and a Cow 1955, I was a Public Prosecutor 1958; appeared as presiding judge in TV series The Verdict is Yours; m. 1st 1932 Norah Russell; 2nd 1944 Frances Vivienne, d. of Francis William Mason MRCS LRCP of Bromsgrove, Worcs; d. 5 Feb. 1987 in France.

ERLE-DRAX-GROSVENOR, RICHARD EDWARD, only son of Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (qv); b. Mar 1797; adm. 14 Jun 1809; left 1810; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 May 1815, aged 18; MP New Romney 22 Feb 1819-26; d. 13 Aug 1828.

ERLE-DRAX-GROSVENOR, RICHARD, son of Thomas Grosvenor (adm. 1749, qv); b. 5 Oct 1762; adm. 29 Nov 1773; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1779; MP East Looe 4 Sep 1786 - Apr 1788, Clitheroe 15 Sep 1794-6, Chester 15 Dec 1802-7, New Romney from 18 Jun 1818; assumed additional surnames of Erle-Drax on marriage; High Sheriff, Dorset 1800; m. 11 Mar 1788 Sarah Frances, dau. of Edward Drax MP, Charborough Park, Dorset; d. 8 Feb 1819.

ERSKINE, THOMAS, LORD ERSKINE, eldest son of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar (S) PC KT, Secretary of State, and his first wife Lady Margaret Hay, eldest dau. of Thomas Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull (S); bapt. Alloa, Clackmannanshire 3 Nov 1706 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) May 1715; acted Monimia in Otway’s The Orphan, performed by some Westminster boys in Jan 1719/20 (HMC Portland, v, 593; see also Stuart Papers, ii, 98-9 and iii, 143 for some account of him at the School); had company in an Irish Regiment in French Army 1724; a Captain of Foot in British Army 1729-34; Commissary of Stores, Gibraltar 1729; MP Stirling Burghs 16 Mar 1728-34, Stirlingshire 6 Feb - 18 Jun 1747, Clackmannanshire 1747-54; owing to his father’s attainder on 17 Feb 1715/6 for complicity in the rebellion of 1715, Erskine did not inherit the Earldom of Mar on his father’s death in May 1732, but the family estate at Alloa was repurchased from the Government by his friends and conveyed to him in 1739; m. 1 Oct 1741 Lady Charlotte Hope, eighth dau. of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (S) KT; d. 16 Mar 1766.

EVELYN, WILLIAM GLANVILLE, elder son of William Evelyn (afterwards Glanville) MP, Ightham, Kent, a Commissioner of the Revenue (I), and his second wife Bridget, dau. of Hugh Raymond, Saling Hall, Essex; b. 1734; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1743/4 (Morel's); left 1751; High Sheriff, Kent 1757; MP Hythe 1768-1802; m. 2 Aug 1760 Susannah, dau. of Thomas Ba[o ?]rrett, Shoreham, Kent; d. 3 Nov 1813.

EVELYN, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Evelyn (qv); b. 10 Feb 1723; adm. Jun 1731; left 1737; Page of Honour to Queen Caroline to 1737; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 17 Jul 1739; Lieut. and Capt., 16 Apr 1744; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut-Col., 27 Aug 1754; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 24 Mar 1755; Brevet Col., 19 Feb 1762; Second Maj., 20 Aug 1762; First Maj., 23 Dec 1763; Col., 29th Foot, from 3 Nov 1769; Maj. -Gen., 30 Apr 1770; Lieut. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; MP Helston 1 Jul 1767-74; again elected MP Helston in double return 1780, but case was decided against him by House of Commons 19 Feb 1781; of Send Grove, Surrey; d. unm. 15 Aug 1783.