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, 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, 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, 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, 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, SAMUEL, brother of John Ellis (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1665; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 May 1669; Marshal of the King’s Bench 1688; fled from England at the revolution of 1688.

ELLIS, PHILIP (in religion, MICHAEL), brother of John Ellis (KS 1660, qv); b. 1652; adm.; KS 1667; a Roman Catholic convert; professed as Benedictine monk at Douai 30 Nov 1670; ordained; a missionary priest in England; Chaplain to James II; Vicar Apostolic of Western division of England 30 Jan 1687/8; consecrated Bishop of Aureliopolis (in partibus) at Chapel Royal, St. James’s, 6 May 1688; arrested and imprisoned in Newgate at outbreal of revolution of 1688, but soon afterwards released and went abroad; living in Rome by 1693; not being able to discharge his duties as Vicar Apostolic, he resigned c. 1705; Bishop of Segni, Italy, from 3 Oct 1708; d. at Segni 16 Nov 1726. DNB.

ELLIS, JOHN, eldest son of Rev. John Ellis, Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks., and Susannah, dau. of William Welbore, Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1664, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1664-81, Faculty Student from 1681; BA 1668; MA 1672 (both degrees in College Act Book, not in University records); employed in Secretary of State’s Office and State Paper Office; Secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins at Conference of Nijmegen 1675-7; Secretary to Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory 1678-80 and to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 1680-2; Secretary to Commissioners of Revenue, Ireland 1682-9; a Commissioner of Transports; Under Secretary of State May 1695 - May 1705; Comptroller of the Mint 23 May 1701-11; MP Harwich 1702-8; two volumes of his correspondence were edited by George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (qv); at the time of his death he had been a Student of Christ Church for over seventy-three years; d. unm. 8 Jul 1738. DNB.

ELLIS, JOHN GERRARD, eldest son of Rev. John Ellis, Prebendary of Ripon, and Philippa, dau. of Thomas Salter (adm. 1720, qv); bapt. 17 Jun 1783; adm. 22 Feb 1797 (Clapham); KS (aged 14) 1797; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1801, matr. 15 May 1801, Westminster Student; BA 1806; MA 1808; d. 10 Dec 1824.

ELLIS, HENRY JOHN, eldest son of Frederick Charles Ellis, Mortlake, Surrey, civil servant, and Lucy Ellen, sister of Henry William Bidwell (qv); grandson of Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian, British Museum; b. 6 Jun 1851; adm. 27 Sep 1861; QS 1866; left May 1868; employed Manuscripts Department, British Museum May 1872 - Aug 1912; m. 9 Jan 1896 Margaret Caroline, eldest dau. of Roger Leigh MP, Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent; d. 3 Jan 1926.