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Ellice (surname)
Ellice is a surname, and may refer to: * Alexander Ellice (fur trader) 1743–1805), Scottish merchant who made his fortune in the North American fur trade * Alexander Ellice (politician) (1791–1853), British naval officer and Member of Parliament, son of Alexander Ellice * Andrew Ellice, Welsh army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 * Edward Ellice (merchant) (1783–1863), British merchant and politician, son of Alexander Ellice * Edward Ellice (MP for St Andrews) (1810–1880), Scottish Liberal Party politician, son of the above * Edward Charles Ellice (1858–1934), British Liberal Party politician * Katherine Ellice (1813–1864), British diarist and artist * Robert Ellice (Royalist) ( fl.1640), Welsh Royalist army officer of the First English Civil War * Robert Ellice (1784–1856), British Army general, son of Alexander Ellice * Russell Ellice Russell Ellice (6 June 1799 – 15 September 1873) was a British businessman who was Chairman of the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ellice (fur Trader)
Alexander Ellice (17431805) was a Scottish merchant, landowner and lawyer who made his fortune in the North American fur trade. Early life He was born in Auchterless, Scotland, the eldest of five sons of a successful miller, also named Alexander Ellice, and was baptised on 28 May 1743. He attended Marischal College and was admitted to the Scottish bar. Business career In 1765, he and his four brothers moved to Schenectady, New York. The next year, he entered into a partnership to engage in fur trading and general merchandising in upstate New York and the lower Great Lakes region. The firm of Phyn, Ellice and Company prospered, and his brother Robert became a partner in 1768. Phyn, Ellice and Company imported goods, first from Scotland, then from London. However, tensions mounted between the American colonies and Britain. An embargo in 1770 forced the company to bring in its imports through Quebec. Finally, in October 1774, the colonies broke off commercial ties with Britain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ellice (politician)
Alexander Ellice (17911853) was a British naval officer, and for four years Member of Parliament for the constituency of Harwich, Essex. He was thereafter Comptroller of the Steam Department at the Admiralty for a year. Biography Alexander Ellice was born 3 October 1791 in London, the son of the merchant and fur trader Alexander Ellice, and Ann Ellice (née Russell). In 1795, his father purchased the Seigneury of Villechauve from Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière. His brothers include General Robert Ellice, and the politician and Hudson's Bay merchant Edward Ellice. Alexander Ellice entered the Navy, 2 August 1806, as a volunteer, on board , under Captain George Edmund Byron Bettesworth; and afterwards joining as midshipman, was present on 15 May 1808 in a severe action of an hour and a half with a Danish flotilla, near Bergen, in which Captain Butterworth was killed. He continued to serve in HMS ''Tartar'', under Captain Joseph Baker, until being trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ellice
Andrew Ellice was a Welsh army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. He served in the Parliamentary army. Ellice was from Althrey in Wales. He was an officer in the Parliamentary army and was Commissioner of Sequestration for Denbighsire and Flintshire. On 18 June 1650, he was appointed by the London Committee to be steward of sequestered estates of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby in Flintshire. On 2 August 1650, he was ordered to secure Hawarden Castle. He was appointed by the Council of State as captain of a Troop of Horse for North Wales on 13 August 1650 and became a militia commissioner for North Wales on 23 March 1651. In 1654, Ellice was elected member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for Flintshire in the First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ellice (merchant)
Edward Ellice the Elder (27 September 1783 – 17 September 1863), known in his time as the "Bear", was a British merchant and politician. He was a Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and a prime mover behind the Reform Bill of 1832. Biography Ellice was born on 27 September 1783 in London, the son of Alexander Ellice and Ann Russell. In 1795, his father purchased the Seigneury of Villechauve from Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière. His younger brother was General Robert Ellice. He was educated at Winchester School and at Marischal College, Aberdeen. He became a partner in the firm of ''Phyn, Ellices and Inglis'', which had become interested in the XY Company in Canada. He was sent to Canada in 1803, and in 1804 became a party to the union of the XY and North West Companies. He became a partner in the North West Company, and during the struggle with Lord Selkirk he played an important part. He engaged in the Canada fur trade from 1803, and as a result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ellice (MP For St Andrews)
Edward Ellice, the younger (19 August 1810 – 2 August 1880) was a British Liberal Party politician and landowner. Life He was the eldest son of Edward Ellice, from his first marriage to Hannah Althea Grey, the youngest sister of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. The Ellice family was English by descent, and had settled in Aberdeenshire in the mid-17th century. Edward Ellice was born in London in 1810 and was educated at Eton College (1823–1836) and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He matriculated at the University of Cambridge on the 6 June 1828 and in 1831 was awarded a Master of Arts degree without having first obtained a bachelor's degree. In 1832, he was appointed as Private Secretary to John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham for his diplomatic mission to Russia. Lord Durham was a close friend and a relative of Ellice's father, having married the Earl Grey's second daughter. Ellice was an unsuccessful candidate for Inverness Burghs in the 1835 general election, but was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Charles Ellice
Major Edward Charles Ellice, DSO, JP, DL (1 January 1858 – 21 February 1934) was Liberal MP for St Andrews Burghs. Biography He was the son of Robert Ellice (1816–1858) and Eglantine "Tina" Balfour (1816–1907), the grandson of Robert Ellice and Eliza Courtney, a grandnephew of Edward Ellice, and a cousin and the heir of the latter's son, heir and namesake, Edward Ellice, who was a previous MP for the constituency. Educated at Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Ellice was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1876 or 1877, and promoted to captain on 5 August 1886. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he joined Lord Lovat's Corps as a captain of mounted infantry on 21 February 1900. The corps was raised by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat and served in South Africa through the war. Ellice was elected at the 1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionists. He sought re-election at the 1906 General E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Ellice
Katherine Jane "Janie" Ellice (née Balfour; 1813 – 13 April 1864) was a British diarist and artist. She is most remembered for her chronicle and watercolours of a trip to Canada, in 1838, where she and her sister were taken prisoner during the Battle of Beauharnois. Life She was born in 1813, the second daughter of eight children of Eglantyne Katherine Fordyce (1789–1851) and Sir Robert Balfour. "She spoke Italian and French, was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist, and played the piano and guitar." She married Edward Ellice on 15 July 1834.K. D. Reynolds, "Ellice, Katherine Jane anie(1813–1864)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 3 April 2018./ref> On 24 April 1838, she boarded HMS ''Hastings'' and accompanied her husband, Edward Ellice to Canada in his capacity as private secretary to his cousin (by marriage), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, who was en route to his appointments as Governor General of the Prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ellice (Royalist)
Colonel Robert Ellice of Gwasnewydd (fl. 1640; occasionally spelt "Robert Ellis") was a Welsh professional soldier who served in the Royalist army in the English Civil War. Trained as a military engineer, during the war Ellice served largely in North Wales, which was strategically important due to ports giving access to Ireland. He was responsible for constructing much of the outer fortifications of Chester, but also served as a colonel of foot in engagements across the region. Life Ellice was born in Denbighshire to a minor gentry family, the son of Gruffydd Ellis ap Risiard of Bersham: the family claimed descent from mediaeval Welsh nobility through an illegitimate line. They were connected with several other landowning families locally, including the Lloyds of Bodidris. Ellice married Mary Lloyd, the daughter of the vicar of Ruabon. They had one son, Peter Ellice, who was born in about 1647 and became a barrister, and at least two daughters. From his uncle, the lawyer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ellice
General Robert Ellice (13 October 1784 – 18 June 1856) was a British Army officer. Military career Born the son of Scottish merchant and fur trader Alexander Ellice and brother of Edward Ellice and Alexander Ellice, Ellice was commissioned as an ensign on 8 November 1798. He saw action at Buenos Aires in 1807 before becoming Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada in 1809. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Western District in 1840 and General Officer Commanding the British troops in Malta in 1847. He was also colonel of the 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Family On 10 December 1814, Ellice married Eliza Courtney, the illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; they had at least four children: * Robert Ellice (1 January 1816 – 19 December 1858), married Eglantine Balfour, sister of Jane Ellice. These two sisters were captured and held captive for a week during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
