Edward Chauncy Ellis (10 January 1810 – 28 March 1887) was an English

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er who was associated with

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and made his first-class debut in 1829. Ellis was born in

Leyton Leyton () is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It borders Walthamstow to the north, Leytonstone to the east, and Stratford to the south, with Clapton, Hackney Wick and Homerton, across the River L ...

, Essex. He was a student at

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, from 1828 and won a

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for cricket in 1829; later he was ordained in the Church of England and after curacies in Essex became the

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Langham, Essex Langham is a small village in the north east of Essex, England. History There is little evidence of pre-Roman occupation of what is now Langham, but the Romans built a villa at the north end of the village close to the River Stour and the Roma ...

(in the

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) in 1847 and stayed there until his death there in 1887. He was the youngest brother of

Thomas Flower Ellis Thomas Flower Ellis, (5 December 1796 – 5 April 1861) was an English law reporter. Ellis was the son of Thomas Flower Ellis, a merchant in the West India trade, and his wife Frances, ''née'' Danvers. Born in Walthamstow, he was educated in Hac ...

and the father of Caroline Ellis, the mother of philosopher

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the phil ...

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* 1810 births 1887 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen cricketers People from Leyton Sportspeople from the London Borough of Waltham Forest People from Langham, Essex Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests {{England-cricket-bio-1810s-stub