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, 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.
ELLISON, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1752 (Fox's); in school list 1754. [“Elliston” in school lists].
ELLISON, RICHARD, eldest illegitimate son of Richard Ellison MP, Sudbrooke Holme, Lincs., banker; b. 13 May 1807; adm. 10 Oct 1820 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 May 1826; BA 1830; of Boultham Hall, Lincs.; DL JP Lincolnshire; partner, Smith, Ellison & Co., bankers, Lincoln c. 1829 – c. 1846; FSA 5 Jun 1851; m. 1 Aug 1830 Charlotte, sister of Sir George Chetwynd, Bart. (qv); d. 30 Dec 1881. [mother perhaps Jane, dau. of William Maxwell [check]]
Ellissen, Francis Lyon Gordon, son of Arthur Victor Ellissen, member Lond. Stock Exchange, of Richmond, Surrey, and Irene Maude Mary, d. of George Lyon Begbie; b. 26 May 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (A); left. July 1935; RNVR in WW2; lost in the sinking by enemy action of SS Laconia 12 Sept. 1942.
Francis Lyon Gordon Ellissen was born at Richmond, Surrey on the 26th of May 1918 the son of Arthur Victor Sampson Ellissen MC MP, a barrister at law, and Irene Maude Mary (nee Begbie) Ellissen, an artist, of 6, Cardigan Road, Richmond. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from January 1932 to July 1935. On leaving school he worked as a commercial artist.
Following the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Royal Navy, was trained as a gunner and was attached to the 19,695 ton passenger liner SS Laconia.
The SS Laconia, under the command of Master Rudolph Sharp OBE, sailed from the Middle East bound for Liverpool, and stopped at Capetown before setting sail for Freetown. She was unescorted and was carrying 136 crewmen, 80 civilians, 268 military personnel, including nurses, and 1,809 Italian prisoners guarded by 160 Polish troops; she was also carrying 200 tons of general cargo.
At 10.20pm on the 12th of September 1942, the SS Laconia was sailing some 360 miles to the north, northeast of the Ascension Islands when she was struck by a torpedo which had been fired by the U-Boat U-156, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartenstein. The torpedo struck her in the hold on the starboard side, killing many of the Italian prisoners in the explosion. She began to list to starboard and, as Captain Sharp was regaining control of her, she was struck in her Number 2 hold by a second torpedo. With the forecastle now awash, Sharp issued the order to abandon ship with the women, children and the wounded taking to the lifeboats. 32 lifeboats had been destroyed by the explosions. At 11.11pm the ship sank by the bow leaving hundreds of survivors in the water. Although estimates vary, between 1,658 and 1,757 passengers and crew are thought to have lost their lives in the attack.
He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Memorial Panel 68, Column 1.