Ellis, Christopher Herbert Evelyn, son of Capt. Herbert M. Ellis, M.C., of Coombe, Surrey; b. Dec. 14, 1900; adm. April 30, 1914 (A); left Dec. 1915; d. in Canada 1950.
ELLIS, CHARLES, youngest brother of John Ellis (adm. 1660, qv); b.; adm.; BB 1676; KS 1677; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1681, adm. pens. May 1681, aged 18, scholar 1682; BA 1684/5; MA 1688; Fellow of Christ’s Coll. Camb., appointed before 30 Sep 1686, ceased to reside 1691, Junior Dean and Catechist 1687, Bunting preacher 1689; ordained deacon 22 May 1687, priest 29 May 1687 (both Lincoln); Chaplain to Earl of Pembroke; the news of his death at Vienna, where he had gone as travelling tutor to --- Backwell, reached Rome by 12 Mar 1699/1700.
ELLIOT, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 16) Apr 1743 (Ludford's); left 1744; evidently “Elliot” referred to in a letter of condolence on the death of Archibald Hamilton (qv) written by Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (qv), to Frederick Hamilton (qv), 5 Jun 1744, so not improbably of the same social class as they were.
Elliot, Herbert Hugh, son of Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot, author, of Chislehurst, Kent, and Rose Maud, d. of N. Chesterfield; b. 3 June 1909; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left 1927; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1927, BA 1930; PO RAFVR June 1942; m. 1939 Kate Marjorie, d. of Rev. Vernon Iles of South Marston, Wilts; killed in an air accident in Kenya 13 July 1942.
Herbert Hugh Elliot was born at Hove, West Sussex on the 3rd of June 1909 the only son of Hugh Samuel Roger Elliot, an author, and Rosa Maud (nee Chesterfield) Elliot of 15, Bede House, Manor Fields, Putney. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1921 to 1927 and was a member of the Chess team in 1925 and 1926. He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge where he was admitted as an Entrance Exhibitioner on a Westminster Exhibition on the 1st of October 1927. He was awarded a BA in 1930.
He was married in south London in 1939 to Kate Marjorie (nee Iles) of “Abbots Cot”, Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. He was elected as a member of the London Rowing Club in 1932. He was elected as a member of the committee in 1938 and rowed in the Thames Cup in 1937, 1938 and 1939.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an Observer and rose to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 12th of October 1941.
Herbert Elliott and his crew took off on the 13th of July 1942 in Blenheim Mk IV V5869 with two other Blenheims from the unit to practice low level attacks. They had been briefed that they were not to fly below 50 feet. The aircraft was making a mock attack on a vehicle on the Isiolo to Marsabit road, near Nanyuki in Kenya when it struck a tree and crashed at 10.45am killing all on board.
The crew was:-
Sergeant Lyndley Dawson Craven RAAF (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Herbert Hugh Elliott (Observer)
Flying Officer Eric Arthur Main (Pilot)
A telegram was sent to D, H. Hopgood dated the 15th April 1942: - “Deeply regret to inform you that Pilot Officer Herbert Hugh Elliott is reported to have lost his life as he result of an aircraft accident on 13/7/42. The Air Council express their profound sympathy. His wife has been informed.”
The accident was attributed to pilot having disobeyed his orders as the aircraft was seen to descend below 50 feet while making its dummy attack. As a result of the accident the unit was ordered not to fly below 100 feet during future exercises of the same type.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge and on the memorial at the London Rowing Club.
He is buried at Nanyuki War Cemetery Row 1 Grave 34.
ELLERSHAW, ARTHUR, son of Rev. John Ellershaw, Rector of Chew Stoke, Somerset, and Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of Lieut. -Col. William Pilsworth, Leeds, Staff Officer of Pensioners; b. 27 Feb 1869; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1880; Min. Can. 1883; left May 1885; RMA Woolwich, Gentleman Cadet 28 Aug 1886; 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery 27 Jul 1888; Lieut., 27 Jul 1891; Capt., 1 Mar 1899; Maj., 8 May 1909; Lieut. -Col., 9 Apr 1916; acting Brig. -Gen., 1917-9; Col., 1 Jan 1921; retired as Brig. -Gen., 1925; served North West Frontier, India 1897-8, with Natal Field Force in South African War 1900 (severely wounded), Aden expedition 1903-4, and 1914-8 War; commanded 111th Heavy Battery with 111th Division in Flanders 1914-5, 46th Heavy Artillery Brigade in France 1916, Heavy Artillery 1st Corps 1917, 8th Corps Feb - Jun 1918, 6th Corps Jun 1918 - Nov 1919 in France and Flanders; mentioned in despartches LG 17 Feb 1915, 22 Jun 1915, 4 Jan 1917, 11 Dec 1917, 20 Dec 1918; DSO 3 Jun 1915; CMG 1 Jan 1918; CB 1 Jan 1919; French Croix de Guerre; m. 4 Nov 1926 Nora Mary, younger dau. of J. T. Middleton, Woking, Surrey; d. 16 Jul 1929.
ELIOT, RICHARD, second son of Rev. Edward Eliot, Vicar of Norton Bavant, Wilts., and Prebendary of Salisbury, sometime Archdeacon of Barbados, and ---, d. of --- Skeats [or Skeet ?], Barbados, West Indies; b. 6 Apr 1831; adm. (G) 7 Jan 1844; QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student; BA 1853; MA 1856; ordained 1857; d. 14 May 1862.
Eldridge, Basil Edgar, son of the Rev. Philip Xenophon Eldridge, of Upper Tooting; b. Feb. 9, 1887; adm. Jan. 18, 1900 (H); left Dec. 1903; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1914; ord. deacon 1916, priest 1917 (Southwark); Curate of St. James, Bermondsey, Surrey, 1916-20, of All Saints, Tufnell Park, 1921-2, and of Tonbridge, Kent, 1923-6; Vicar of Crowborough, Sussex, 1926-36, of Holy Trinity, Richmond, Surrey, 1936-41, and of St. Mark, New Milverton, Warwickshire, 1942-52; Rector of Great Holland, Essex, 1952; m. July 3, 1923, Enid Ethel Waterfall; d. 7 May 1979.
Ekserdjian, Angus George Martin, son of Col. Nubar Martin Ekserdjian TA TD, economist, of Knaphill, Surrey, and Mabel Brown, d. of George Angus, steel maker, of Motherwell, Lanarks; b. 11 Dec. 1948; adm. May 1962 (B); left Dec. 1967; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1968, BA 1971, MA 1976; called to the Bar, Middle Temple Feb. 1973; d. 26 Mar. 1989.
Ekin, Roger Gillies, son of Col. Tom Charles Ekin TA MICE, and Emily Mary, d. of Maj. Alfred Phillips IA; b. 18 Nov. I 895; adm. Sept. 1909 (H); left Dec. 1912; RMC Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. IA Oct. 1914, Capt. Oct. 1918, Maj. Oct. 1932; Brevet Lieut.-Col. July 1936, Col. July 1939, Briga dierJune 1941, acting Maj.-Gen. Mar. 1946; served Palestine 1916-9, Waziristan 1919-21, NW Frontier 1930, 1938 and 1940; OC 5 Battn Frontier Force Rifles 1937-40, Tactical Sch. India 1940-1, 46 Infantry Bde Burma 1942, Nowshera Bde 1942-5, Kohat Bde 1945-6; GOC Bihar and Orissa 1946- 7, retd 1947; despatches five times, CIE June 1946; sec. Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance 1947-61; m. 1st 15 May 1923 Phyllis Marian, d. of Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Leycester Croker KCB CMG of Donyland House, Essex; 2nd 8 Mar. 1972 Mona, widow of Etienne Bruno de Hamel of Tamworth, Staffs; d. 6 Mar. 1990.
Eiloart, Timothy March Beaupré, son of Arnold Beaupré Eiloart, businessman, of Headley Down, Hants, and Mary Elizabeth Eiloart MRCP LRCS, dermatologist, d. of Brig. William Noel Stokes OBE DSC RAOC of The Bailey, Co. Dublin; b. 29 Dec. 1936; adm. Sept. 1950 (W); left July 1954; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1955, sailed against Oxford 1956-8, BA 1958, MA 1962; crossed the Atlantic in a balloon 1959; a journalist and businessman; founder and owner Cambridge Consultants Ltd. 1960-71; contested (Ecology) Huntingdon 1983; m. 1st, 1963 Sheila Hynd, orthoptist; 2nd, 1970 Mary Gist, probation officer, d. of Frederick Gist; d. 4 Mar. 2009.