Thom's Irish Who's Who/Macartney, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Grey Ellison

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3285378Thom's Irish Who's Who — Macartney, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Grey Ellison


MACARTNEY, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Grey Ellison, P.C. (1900), K.C.M.G. (1913): J.P. for England and Wales; High Sheriff, Co. Antrim. 1908. Educ. at Eton and Exeter College. Oxford, where he graduated first class in Arts, 1875; M.P. for Sth. Antrim, 1885-1903: was Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, 1895-1900; Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint, 1903-12; Governor of Tasmania. 1912-17; Governor of W. Australia, 1917-20; son of the late John William Ellison Macartney. Esq., D.L., of Clogher Park, Clogher, Co. Tyrone; b. 1852; m. 1897, Ettie, dau. of J. E. Scott, Esq. Res.: Mountjoy Grange, Co. Tyrone. Clubs: Carton, St. Stephen's, S.W.