Person Ellis; George (1753 - 1815); author Ellis George author 1753 - 1815 British Male Jamaica, North and Central America 19 December 1753 17531219 Connaught Place, London, England, United Kingdom 10 April 1815 18150410

Poet; politician; plantation and slave owner Poetry Antiquities Education: Trinity College, University of Cambridge Career: Produced 'Poetical Tales by Sir Gregory Gander' (1778); received an income from the sugar pantations Ellis Caymanas and Crawle Pen in St Caherine, Jamaica, owned by his late father and manged by his uncle John Ellis, took control of the plantation on his uncle's death (1782);employed as an aide by his friend the Whig diplomat Sir James Harris (later Lord Malmesbury), with whom he travelled widely on the continent and accompanied his embassy to the Hague (1784); subsequently wrote a history of the Dutch revolution (1789); later accompanied Malmesby to the peace conference at Lille (1797) at which the British line was to restore the French monarchy; likely author of 'A Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian'', published anonymously (1788); MP for Seaford (1796-1802) did not speak in the house but identified as a member with West India interests willing to support limitation to the British trade in enslaved people but not abolition; published 'Specimens of the Early English Poets' (1790); founded the 'Anti-Jacobin' with Canning and Gifford, an ultra-Tory political periodical printed from 1797-1798; published 'Specimens of early English Romances in metre' (1805); friend of Sir Walter Scott Memberships: FSA Posthumous son of George Ellis (author, sugar plantation and slave owner); married (1805) Anne, daughter of Sir Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet; no children; nephew of Edward Long Fellow 18/05/1797 43 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Wikipedia; UCL LBS References: 'George Ellis', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632390 [accessed 9th July 2020]. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 19 Dec 1753 - 10 Apr 1815 NA2811 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes http://viaf.org/viaf/27099724 322c070f-cfae-4a81-8ed5-4e88d3c2dae0