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ELLIS, WILLIAM MAY, only son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, Vicar of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Mary, dau. of William May, Buryfield, Berks.; half-brother of Charles Willatts Ellis (qv); b. 16 Jan 1804; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); Min. Can. 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1821; BA 1825; MA 1829; ordained; Rector of Ickford, Bucks., from 25 Jul 1838; d. 21 Jul 1846.

ELLIS, WILLIAM THOMAS, brother of John Gerrard Ellis (qv); b. 24 May 1787; adm.; KS 1801; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1805, adm. pens. 27 May 1805, scholar 18 Apr 1806, matr. Mich. 1805; BA 1809; MA 1813; ordained deacon 1811 (Exeter, lit. dim. from York), priest 21 Jul 1811 (York); Master, Wye GS, Kent 1812-9; Perpetual Curate of Wye, Kent 16 Dec 1812 - res 1817; m.; d. 21 Jan 1857.

ELLIS, SIR WILLIAM, brother of John Ellis (KS 1660, qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1661; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1665, matr. 14 Jul 1665, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1665 - deprived 17 Dec 1670 for accepting Cambridge degree before first having obtained a grace in his own college; BA 1669; MA Cambridge 1671; adm. Middle Temple 27 Nov 1673; Customer, Comptroller and Searcher for provinces of Leinster and Munster, 25 Jun 1678 (post held jointly with his brother Welbore Ellis, qv); a Commissioner of Revenue, Ireland, 6 Feb 1678/9; Surveyor-General of Ordnance (I) 5 Jul 1682; Secretary to Earl of Tyrconnel, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1686; knighted at Dublin 1688; Secretary at War (I) 31 Jan 1688/9; Privy Councillor (I) 1690 (a creation by James II); attainted 1691; Secretary to James II in exile at St. Germain; Treasurer to Jacobite Court in Rome from c. 1717; Secretary to James III (the Old Pretender) from 1727; d. at Rome 16 Aug 1732. DNB. [perhaps LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1681]

ELLIS, WILLIAM; b.; at school 1800; in school lists 1801, May and Oct 1803.

ELLISON, CHRISTOPHER, brother of Richard Ellison (qv); b. 25 Feb 1813; adm. 7 Oct 1824; Ensign, 88th Foot 30 Apr 1833; Lieut., 24 Feb 1838; Capt., 21 Feb 1840; d. 1 Dec 1840.

ELLISON, CUTHBERT EDWARD, brother of George Thomas Ellison (qv); b. 29 Nov 1817; adm. 7 Apr 1825; KS 1832; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1836, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1836, scholar 1837, matr. Mich. 1836; BA 1840; MA 1843; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Jan 1841; migr. to Inner Temple 18 Jan 1845, called to bar 31 Jan 1845; Home Circuit; Stipendiary Magistrate, Newcastle upon Tyne 25 Jan 1854-60, Manchester 4 May 1860 -4; Metropolitan Magistrate, Worship Street 14 Jun 1864-70, Lambeth from Sep 1870; JP Lancashire; m. 1 Jun 1854 Mary Isabella, eldest dau. of Thomas Tonge Vallance, Sittingbourne, Kent; d. 26 May 1883.

ELLISON, GEORGE HENRY, son of George Thomas Ellison (qv); b. 28 Aug 1847; adm. (G) 23 Jul 1861, from Bradfield Coll.; left Aug 1863; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Oct 1867, matr. Mich. 1868; BA 1872; adm. solicitor Hilary 1873; practised in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, firm Bloxam and Ellison; [unm. in 1881]; d. 21 Jun 1888.

ELLISON, GEORGE THOMAS, eldest son of George Ellison, London and Great Marlow, Bucks., attorney, and Mary, dau. of John Lovegrove, Great Marlow, Bucks.; b. 6 Dec 1810; adm. 10 Jul 1820; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1832; adm. solicitor Hilary 1834; practised in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, firm Bloxam, Ellison and Bloxam; m. 30 Aug 1842 Catherine Margaret, youngest dau. of Richard Estcourt Cresswell MP, Pinkney Park, Malmesbury, Wilts.; d. 8 Jan 1885.

Ellison, Gerald Alexander, son of Rev. John Henry Joshua Ellison CVO, Rector of St Michael Cornhill, Prebendary of St Paul's and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the King, and his second wife Sara Dorothy Graham, d. of Walter Ewing Crum; grandson of Henry John Ellison (qv); b. 19 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left. July 1929; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1930, rowed against Cambridge 1932-3, pres. OUBC 1933-4, BA 1933, MA 1937; ord. deacon 1935, priest 1936 (Sarum); Curate Sherborne Abbey 1935-7; domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester 1937-9, to the Archbishop of York 1943-46; Chaplain RNVR 1940-3, despatches (Crete) Jan. 1942; Vicar of St Mark Portsea 1946-50, hon. Canon of Portsmouth 1950; Bishop Suffragan of Willesden 1950-5; Bishop of Chester 1955-73; DD (Lambeth); chairman Archbishop's Commn on Women and Holy Orders 1963-6, member Archbishop's Commn on Church and State 1967; Bishop of London 1973-83; PC 1973; KCVO 1981; Vicar-General Diocese of Ber­muda 1983-4; Council of King's Coll. Lond. 1973-80 (FKC 1968), chairman 1980-8; chairman Oxford Society 1973-85; hon. Fellow New Coll. Oxf. 1974; hon. Bencher Middle Temple 1974; pres. Elizabethan Club 1981-5; a Busby Trustee 1951-89; Governor Sherborne Sch. 1982-5; a Steward of Henley Regatta; m. 18 June 1947 Jane Elizabeth, d. of Brig. John Houghton Gibbon DSO RA, of Little Durnford Manor, Wilts.; d. 18 Oct. 1992.