F. R. Ellis

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|honorific-suffix = {{postnominal|size=100%|country=GBR|CMG}}

|name = Francis Robert Ellis

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|order = 22nd

|office = Accountant General and Controller of Revenue

|term_start = 1 March 1902

|term_end = 1 March 1907

|predecessor = William Thomas Taylor

|successor = Bernard Senior

|order2 = 8th

|office2 = Governor of North Borneo

|term_start2 = 1911

|term_end2 = 1912

|predecessor2 = Edward Peregrine Gueritz

|successor2 = Sir James Scott Mason

|birth_date = 5 May 1849

|birth_place = Ireland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|11|25|1849|5|5|df=y}}

|death_place = London

|spouse = Lucy Thornton

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Francis Robert Ellis, {{postnominal|country=GBR|CMG}} (5 May 1849 – 25 November 1915) was the 22nd Auditor General and Accountant General and Controller of Revenue of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).{{cite IBD1915|wstitle= Ellis, Francis Robert |volume= 6.5 |page= 139 |year=1915|short=1}}

He was born the son of Colonel F. Ellis.

He joined the Colonial Service in Ceylon as a writer in 1871 and became Judge of Ratnapura in 1883, Police Magistrate in Colombo in 1885 and Director and Inspector-General of Prisons, Ceylon in 1891. He progressed to Government Agent of the Southern Province in 1897 and of Western Province the same year.

He was appointed Auditor General on 1 March 1902, succeeding William Thomas Taylor, and held the office until 1 March 1907, when he was succeeded by Bernard Senior.{{cite web|title=Former Auditor Generals|url=http://www.auditorgeneral.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=56&lang=en|publisher=auditorgeneral.gov.lk|accessdate=13 December 2013}}

He then transferred to British North Borneo as Governor in 1911.

He married Lucy, daughter of D. B. Thornton of St. Petersburg.