Social Victorians/People/Ellis

Also Known As

 * Family name: Ellis

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Maj.-Gen. Sir Arthur Edward Augustus Ellis (13 December 1837 – 11 June 1907)
 * Hon. Mina Frances Labouchere ( – 4 September 1917)
 * Evelyn Mary Ellis ( – 10 December 1934)
 * Mary Evelyn Ellis ( – 30 August 1923)
 * Albertha Lily Magdalen Ellis ( – 15 May 1948)
 * Alexandra Mina Ellis ( – 23 March 1949)
 * Dorothy Ellis ( – 3 August 1944)
 * Arthur Henry Augustus Ellis (13 February 1866 – 2 June 1934)
 * Major Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (13 September 1872 – 29 May 1953)

Relations

 * Hon. Mina Frances Labouchere was the daughter of Henry Labouchere.

Organizations

 * Royal Military College, Sandhurst
 * 21st Regiment of Foot (11 August 1854 – 17 April 1860)
 * Crimean War (1854–1856)
 * Captain, 33rd Regiment of Foot (17 April 1860 – 22 April 1862)
 * Grenadier Guards (22 April 1862 – ), where he was promoted to Major-General
 * Equerry, Household of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1876 – )
 * Sergeant at Arms, House of Lords (1898–1901)
 * Extra Equerry, Household of King Edward VII (1901–1907)
 * Comptroller of Accounts, Lord Chamberlain's Department (1901–1907)

Timeline
1864 May 2, Mina Frances Labouchere and Arthur Edward Augustus Ellis married.

1885 December 17, Mary Evelyn Ellis and Ralph Sneyd married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Major-General Ellis and Miss Alexandra Ellis attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1898 June 22, Evelyn Mary Ellis and Captain Archibald Edward Butter married.

1899 August 10, Dorothy Ellis and Charles Theodore Halswell Kemeys-Tynte (later 8th Baron Wharton) married.

1899 November 4, Alexandra Mina Ellis and Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge married.

Major-General Ellis
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Major-General Ellis (at 654) was present in attendance on Prince Charles of Denmark (at 144) and Princess Maud of Wales (Princess Charles of Denmark) (at 159). "General Ellis" was dressed as an "Elizabethan noble," wearing "dark mauve satin doublet and trunks, slashed and puffed with crimson velvet embroidered with silver; crimson velvet short cloak, embroidered with a darker velvet and lined with mauve satin; gold chain and ornament round neck."

Another of his daughters was present at the ball, Mrs. Mary Evelyn Ellis Sneyd.

Miss Alexandra Ellis
Miss Alexandra Ellis (at 655) was in a "Thérèse costume," wearing "black net."

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Albertha Lily Magdalen Ellis, Arthur Henry Augustus Ellis, and Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis never married.