Sir Robert Geoffrey Ellis, 1st Baronet (4 September 1874 in
Shipley, West Yorkshire – 28 July 1956) was a
Conservative Party politician in the
United Kingdom.
Ellis was educated at
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Today, Peterhouse has 254 undergraduates, 116 full-time graduate students and 54 fellows. It is quite ...
. He was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Wakefield at the
1922 general election, but lost the seat at the
1923 general election. He was re-elected in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
, but defeated again in
1929
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.
Ellis did not contest Wakefield again, but at the
1931 general election he was returned as MP for
Winchester
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. At the
1935 general election, he did not stand again in Winchester, but was elected instead for the Conservative
safe seat
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of
Sheffield Ecclesall. He retired from the
House of Commons at the
1945 general election
The following elections occurred in the year 1945.
Africa
* 1945 South-West African legislative election
Asia
* 1945 Indian general election
Australia
* 1945 Fremantle by-election
Europe
* 1945 Albanian parliamentary election
* 1945 Bulgaria ...
.
He was made a
baronet, of
Threshfield in the West Riding of the
County of York, in 1932.
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1874 births
1956 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
Politics of Wakefield
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