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, 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 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, WILLIAM, son of James Ellis (qv); b. 20 Oct 1760; adm. 12 Jun 1770; KS (aged 13) 1773; Capt. of the School 1778; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1779, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1779, scholar 7 Apr 1780, matr. Mich. 1779; migrated to Trinity Hall 26 Mar 1781; LLB 1787; ordained deacon 15 Jun 1783, priest 21 Sep 1786 (both Lincoln); Minister, Portman Chapel; Rector of Charlwood, Surrey, for some months in 1792; Rector of Thames Ditton, Surrey, from 1792; Rector of East Molesey, Surrey, from 27 Jan 1797; m. 1st, 25 Feb 1786 Caroline Attwick; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1823 Sarah Walter, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey; d. 1 Nov 1834.
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, 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.
Elliston, Julian Clement Peter, brother of Francis Albert Neville Elliston (qv); b. 16 May 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932; called to the Bar (Harmsworth Law Schol. Middle Temple) Nov. 1934; a Parly Counsel to HM Treasury; 2nd Lieut. 90 (City of Lond.) Field Regt RA (TA) Dec. 1932, Lieut. Dec. 1935, Capt. Nov. 1938; served in WW2 in Intelligence and Air appts, Maj. 1943; GSO 2 in HMS Victorious, Brit. Pacific Fleet, 1944-5; TD 1946; CB 1965; m. 4 Dec. 1948 Nora Joyce, d. of Stanley Leverton JP; d. 4 Mar. 1970.