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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992