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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