| Authorised form of name | Ellis; Andrew (- ? 1672); deputy postmaster |
| Other forms of surname | Ellise |
| Dates | - ? 1672 |
| Date of death | 1672 or 1673 |
| Activity | Career:
Deputy Postmaster (1667)
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| Membership category | Original Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/05/1663 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Committee for improving the English language (1664) |
| Other Royal Society activity | Proposed on 10 July 1661; Acted as a legal adviser to the Society, e.g. on the authorisation of the Society's Charter and its statutes (1663); Involved in experiments with lead and quicksilver (1661) |
| OtherInfo | Not much is known about Andrew Ellis' personal and professional life outside his role at the Royal Society and despite being regularly consulted on legal matters by the Society, there are no records of his activities in court or another legal environment. Ellis' role as deputy postmaster meant his acting in the interests of one of the postmasters, Lord Berkeley. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hunter
'The Peover Papers and Wales', in the 'Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion', 1960, p.82
Authority:
OtherFormsOfName from Hunter
Notes:
The election date is Ellis' re-election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows. He was previously elected on 14 August 1661 and admitted into the Society on 21 August 1661.
Hunter gives death date as 1672. He may be the Ellis who was Vicar of East Walton, Norfolk (1626-1673). |
| Code | NA4355 |