ELLICE, Sir Charles Henry (2 son of general Robert Ellice 1784–1856). b. Florence 10 May 1823; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream guards 10 May 1839; lieut. col. 24 foot 8 Aug. 1851 to 8 July 1862 when placed on h.p.; quarter master general 1 April 1871 to 30 March 1876; adjutant general 1 Nov. 1876 to March 1882; col. of 49 foot 7 Sep. 1874, of 24 foot 6 April 1884 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 April 1887; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 15 April 1882. d. Brook house, Horringer, Bury St. Edmunds 12 Nov. 1888.
ELLICE, Edward (eld. son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. Montreal 1781; ed. at Winchester sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1800; settled in London as member of firm of Inglis and Ellice, West India and America house; M.P. for Coventry 1818–1826 and 1830 to death; sec. to the Treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 10 Aug. 1832 when he resigned; sec. of war 4 April 1833 to 16 Dec. 1834; P.C. 3 April 1833; original chairman of Reform club, London mainly established by his influence 1836; hon. D.C.L. St. Andrews 1862. d. Ardochy, Glengary 17 Sep. 1863. Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 33, 37, 123, portrait; I.L.N. xliii, 335, 337 (1863), portrait.
ELLICE, Edward (only son of the preceding). b. London 19 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s district 1837–80; author of A Letter in reply to A Report on the Poor Law in the Highlands 1855. d. on board his yacht Ita off Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. bur. at Tor-na-cairidh on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.
ELLICE, Robert (2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov. 1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.
ELLICOMBE, Sir Charles Grene (brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 1790–1885). b. Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant 30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Worthing 7 June 1871. United Service Mag. July 1871 pp. 407–409.
ELLIOT, Sir Charles (youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830, governor of Madras). b. Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March 1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana 1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb. 1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem Edwin the Fair 1845 as Earl Athulf. d. Withycombe near Exmouth 9 Sep. 1875. Autobiography of H. Taylor i, 164–69, 345–75 (1885).
ELLIOT, Charles Morgan (9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S.) b. Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore 1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846 to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. d. Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.
ELLIOT, Lady Charlotte (eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet 1799–1849). b. 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of Stella and other poems By Florenz 1867; Medusa and other poems 1878. (m. (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure Fothringham, who d. 7 March 1864; m. (2) 17 Dec. 1868 Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). d. 15 Jany. 1880. Athenæum 24 Jany. 1880 p. 124.
ELLIOT, Sir George (2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty 1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40; commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840; admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge, London 24 June 1863.
ELLIOT, Sir Henry Miers (brother of Charles Morgan Elliot 1815–52). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849; author of Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J. 1860, no more printed; Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India, vol. i, 1849; The History of India as told by its own historians, edited by J. Dowson 8 vols. 1867–77 and other books. d. Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.