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ELLIS, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS ; failed to obtain his election to either University 1598; probably Thomas Ellis, London, “arm. ”, who was a Canoneer Student at Christ Church, Oxford 1598-1603, matr. 16 Feb 1598/9, aged 18; BA 1602.

ELLIS, THOMAS, son of John Ellis, Glanywern, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire; b.; adm. Jul 1752 (in school list 1752 as Ellis, Christian name not stated) (Watts'); KS (aged 15) 1753; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1757, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1757, matr. Mich. 1757; d. 12 Mar 1759. Buried Trinity Coll. Chapel.

Ellis, Walter Septimus, son of David Charles Ellis, of Westminster; b. March 1, 1896; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); left July 1914; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. East Kent Regt. July 9, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Oct. 12, 1939; Flight-Lieut.; transferred to R.A.F. Regiment Feb. 1, 1942; temp. Sqdn.-Ldr. Sept. 1, 1942.

ELLIS, WELBORE, brother of John Ellis (KS 1660, qv); bapt. Waddesdon, Bucks. 14 Apr 1661 (IGI); adm.; BB 1671; KS 1676; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, aged 18, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 - void 1705, Tutor 1688-92, Junior Censor 1692; BA 1684; MA 1687; BD and DD 1697; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1732; ordained (by 1690); Prebendary of Winchester 4 Nov 1696-1705; Rector of St. Peter, Northampton Jul 1702-6; consecrated Bishop of Kildare 11 Nov 1705; translated to Meath 13 Mar 1731; Privy Councillor (I) 28 Jun 1731; m. 20 Jul 1706 Diana, dau. of Sir John Briscoe, Kt, Amberley Castle, Sussex, and Boughton, Northants.; d. 1 Jan 1733/4. 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.

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]