Robert Ellice
General Robert Ellice (13 October 1784 – 18 June 1856) was a British Army officer.
Robert Ellice | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 October 1784 |
| Died | 18 June 1856 (aged 71) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Western District British troops in Malta |
Military career
Born the son of Scottish merchant and fur trader Alexander Ellice and brother of Edward Ellice and Alexander Ellice,[1] Ellice was commissioned as an ensign on 8 November 1798.[2] He saw action at Buenos Aires in 1807 before becoming Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada in 1809.[2] He went on to be General Officer Commanding Western District in 1840[3] and General Officer Commanding the British troops in Malta in 1847.[4]
He was also colonel of the 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot.[5]
He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
Family
On 10 December 1814, Ellice married Eliza Courtney, the illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire;[1] they had at least four children:
- Robert Ellice (1 January 1816 – 19 December 1858), married Eglantine Balfour,[6] sister of Jane Ellice. These two sisters were captured and held captive for a week during the Battle of Beauharnois. The couple had one son:
- Major Edward Charles Ellice (1858–21 February 1943) he married Margaret Thomas on 11 April 1889. They had ten children:
- Edward Ellice (6 December 1891 – about 1893)
- Isobel Ellice (18 November 1892)
- Alexander Ellice (19 November 1894 – 16 October 1916) died in World War I at the age of twenty-one
- Margaret Ellice (19 March 1896)
- Andrew Robert Ellice (13 October 1897 – 28 September 1916) died in World War I at the age of eighteen
- William Ellice (19 December 1898 – 26 November 1914) died in World War I, at the age of fifteen, when an internal explosion sank HMS Bulwark
- Eglantine Ellice (9 January 1900 – 1989)
- Russell Ellice (14 November 1902 – 1989)
- Charles Ellice (7 March 1905)
- Major Edward Charles Ellice (1858–21 February 1943) he married Margaret Thomas on 11 April 1889. They had ten children:
- Georgiana Ellice (12 October 1817 – 12 October 1907), married Hugh Horatio Seymour (grandson of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford) on 4 November 1846. They had two children:[7]
- Charlotte Susan Seymour (5 August 1848) she married Charles Campion on 27 May 1879
- Hugh Francis Seymour (23 December 1855 – 14 June 1930) he married Rachel Lascelles (granddaughter of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood through his sixth son James) on 15 April 1884. They have five children:
- Sir Horace James Seymour (26 February 1885 – 8 September 1978)
- Lieutenant Francis Seymour (30 May 1886 – 30 July 1915)
- Mabel Seymour (d. 21 July 1973)
- Kathleen Georgiana Seymour (d. 29 May 1946)
- Mary Gwendolen Seymour (d 18 September 1974)
- Elizabeth Georgiana Ellice (1818-8 March 1899), married Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden on 16 April 1838, and they had ten children.[8]
- General Sir Charles Ellice (10 May 1823 – 12 November 1888), married Louisa Lambton in 1862.
References
- "Robert Ellice". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- "Robert Ellice". Napoleon Series. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "The United Service Magazine, Part 1". 1842. p. 119.
- "A history of the British Army in Malta". Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "No. 20158". The London Gazette. 7 November 1842. p. 3066.
- Marriages Solemnized at St George’s Hanover Square, vol. 1a, 277: “BALFOUR Eglantine Charlotte Louisa and ELLICE Robert”
- Burke’s Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 784
- Westminster Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935: “Name: Henry Bouverie William Brand; Marriage Age: Full Age; Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1838; Marriage Place: St George, Hanover Square; Parish as it Appears: St George, Hanover Square; Father: Henry Trevor; Spouse: Elizabeth Georgiana Ellice”