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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]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.