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Admirals Wm. Young and Sir Herbert Sawyer, and been appointed to the Crocodile 28, commanded, on the Newfoundland station, by his brother, Capt. Wm. Elliott, he again served in the boats at the cutting out of 19 armed-vessels, warmly defended by a battery on the coast of France. Mr. Elliott, who was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (while serving on board the Dannemark 74, Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker) by commission dated 2 Feb. 1815, has since that period been on half-pay.
He married 11 Jan. 1816, and has issue three children.
ELLIS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Francis Wilson Ellis is youngest brother of Retired Commander John Ellis, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cruizer 18, Capts. John Hancock, Pringle Stoddart, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, Thos. Wells, and Thos. Rich. Toker; under whom, in the North Sea and Baltic, he continued successively to serve, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until June, 1810. During that period, one of very active service, he assisted at the capture of three privateers, carrying altogether 47 guns – was frequently employed in cutting out vessels in the very teeth of the enemy’s batteries – witnessed the surrender, in 1807, of the Danish fleet off Copenhagen, whence he was sent to England in charge of one of the prizes – commanded the Cruizer’s tender during the embarkation of the Marquis de la Romana’s army from Nyeborg, in Aug. 1808 – and, for his ability and zeal on every occasion, repeatedly received the thanks of his superiors, and was reported as “entitled to every indulgence the service could grant.” On leaving the Cruizer Mr, Ellis joined the Formidable 98, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, and, after a further servitude in the Roebuck and Solebay, flag-ships at Yarmouth of Vice-Admiral Robt. Murray, was appointed, 8 Nov. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant in command of the British Fair hired armed cutter. He afterwards served, as Acting-Lieutenant, in his old ship the Cruizer, Capt. T. K. Toker – and, as Midshipman again, in the Impetueux 74, flag-ship at Lisbon of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin. We at length find him, on 15 Oct. 1312, officially promoted into the Revenge 74, bearing the flag off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admirals Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and Sir John Gore. Among the other boat services in which Mr. Ellis bore a part during his attachment to the latter ship, was the cutting out of a privateer from the Mole of Palamos. His last appointment appears to have been, 29 March, 1814, to the Milford 74, Capt. Westby Percival, then in the Adriatic. Since Aug. in the latter year, when the Revenge [errata 1], having returned home, was paid off, Lieut. Ellis has not been afloat.
He was appointed, in Jan. 1846, Receiver of the Admiralty Droits at Southwold. He married, 17 May, 1827, Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late John Sanford, Esq. [errata 2], of Salisbury, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
ELLIS. (Commander, 1846.)
Frederick Adam Ellis passed his examination in 1826; and obtained his first commission 20 Jan. 1836. He was subsequently appointed – 20 Aug. 1836, to the Nimrod 20, Capt. John Frazer, on the North America and West India station – 18 Oct. 1838, to the Ganges 84, Capt. Harrington Reynolds, employed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean – 17 July, 1840, to the Belleisle 72, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, lying at Plymouth – and, 25 Oct. 1841, to the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis, on the south-east coast of America. In the latter ship, of which he ultimately became First-Lieutenant, Mr. Ellis continued until she woe paid off, in 1845. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 9 Jan. 1846; and has since been on half-pay.
ELLIS. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 34; h-p., 15.)
Henry Ellis entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Galatea 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng (afterwards Viscount Torrington), chiefly employed on the Irish station; and while in that frigate he witnessed a violent hurricane, in which she was almost totally dismasted, and barely escaped foundering. In June, 1802, he removed, as Master’s Mate, to L’Aigle 36, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, under whom we subsequently find him present, 12 July, 1804, at the destruction, off the coast of France, of La Charente of 20, and La Joie of 8 guns. He became Sub-Lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1805, of the Growler gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Rose, and being promoted – for his satisfactory conduct at the capture, after a running action of an hour and a half, of the French national gun-brig No. 193, carrying 2 long 24-pounders, 1 18-pounder, and 4 swivels[1] – to a full Lieutenancy, 19 March, 1805, in the Rattler sloop, Capt. Fras. Mason, was afterwards appointed – 2 Nov. 1805, to the Formidable 98, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, with whom he went to the Mediterranean – 25 Aug. 1810, to the Armada 74, Capt. Adam Mackenzie – and, 8 May, 1811, 31 Jan. 1816, and 11 Sept. 1818, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Egmont, Rivoli, and Ramillies 74’s, commanded, on the Home station, by Capts. Joseph Bingham, Chas. Ogle, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis. He assumed the rank he now holds 19 July, 1821; from 8 Dec. in which year, until 1832, he was next employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. He was re-appointed to that service 20 March, 1835; but since 1838 has been on half-pay. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
ELLIS. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 25; h-p., 43.)
John Ellis,[2] born 26 June, 1775, at Great Yarmouth, is eldest son of the late John Ellis, Esq., R.N., who, after assisting at the capture of Quebec in 1759, and serving throughout the war of independence in America, died, a Lieutenant of 18 years’ standing, in 1798.
This officer entered the Navy 17 June, 1779; served for some time in the Downs on board the Dromedary and Dunkirk; and, on joining Sir Chas. Henry Knowles, in the Daedalus 32, was for six months, during the year 1794, blocked up by a French squadron at Norfolk, in Virginia. The Daedalus had previously been dismasted in a storm, and had put into that port to be repaired. Following Sir C. H. Knowles into the Edgar and Goliath 74’s, Mr. Ellis ultimately proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in 1796, immediately after passing his examination, he joined the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis. From that ship he soon removed, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Virago gun-boat, employed in the protection of Corsica; after the evacuation of which island by the British, he took her to Gibraltar. He then rejoined Sir C. H. Knowles on board the Goliath, in time to act a part in the battle off
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1805, p. 244.
- ↑ Commander Ellis, himself the son of a Naval officer, as above stated, has had three brothers in the service of their country: – 1. Samuel Burdon Ellis of the R.M., now a Lieut.Colonel and C.B., who, entering his profession in 1804, served in Sir Robert Calder’s action and in the battle of Trafalgar, was on board the Ajax when she took fire and blew up off the Dardanells, accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, contributed to the reduction of Guadeloupe, was in the Pomone at the capture of the American ship President and officiated as Senior Marine Officer throughout the whole of the late operations in China; – 2. George Archer Ellis, Purser R.N., who lost the use of his right arm in the Rattler’s [errata 3] action with the French flotilla, near Ostend, in 1804, was afterwards for six years a prisoner of war in France, and died, 1 Jan. 1843, from paralysis induced by his sufferings; – and 3. Francis Wilson Ellis, Lieut. R.N., whose services we have already recorded. Two of his brothers-in-law, Richard Dalton, Purser R.N., and Robert Johnstone, Surgeon R.N., died, the former Secretary to Admiral Sotheby, the latter Surgeon to the Hospital at Madras. One of his nephews, George H. Ellis, is a passed Clerk, and another, Samuel Burdon Ellis – both sons of Lieut-Colonel Ellis – a First Lieutenant R.M. On 4 April, 1844, in commemoration of the naval services of their family, an honourable augmentation was granted to the arms and crest of the four brothers and their descendants.
