ELLIS, WILLIAM ASHTON, son of Robert Ellis MRCS LSA, Sloane Street, London, and Mary Ann Eliza, dau. of Charles Bagley Uther, gunmaker, Alexander Forsyth & Co; b. 20 Aug 1852; adm. 26 Jan 1865; QS 1867; left Dec 1870; St. George’s Hospital; MRCS 1876, LRCP 1878; Resident Medical Officer, Western Dispensary, Rochester Row, Westminster; edited The Meister (quarterly journal of the Wagner Society) and translated Wagner’s prose works, 1892; d. unm. 2 Jan 1919.

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]

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, 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.

ELLISON, HENRY JOHN, brother of George Thomas Ellison (qv); b. 7 Jun 1813; adm. 30 Jun 1820; KS 1827; rowed against Eton 12 May 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1831, adm. pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832, matr. Mich. 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon (Ely) 27 May 1838, priest (Norwich) 5 Jan 1840; Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Brighton, Sussex 15 Jul 1843; Vicar of Edensor, Derbs., 1845-55; Vicar of New Windsor, Berks., 6 Oct 1855-75; Rector of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire 1875-94; Prebendary of Lichfield 1854-73; Hon. Canon, Christ Church, Oxford 1873-94; Hon. Canon, Canterbury, from 1894; Reader at Windsor Castle 1856-75; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 1879; founder, Church of England Temperance Society; author, Sermons and Addresses on Church Temperance Work, 1895; m. 27 Apr 1854 Mary Dorothy, eldest dau. of Maj. -Gen. Sir Joshua Jebb, Surveyor-Gen. of HM Prisons; d. 25 Dec 1899.

ELLISON, JOHN, brother of Richard Ellison (qv); b. 29 Oct 1809; adm. 10 Oct 1820 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1829; BA 1833.