Robert Ellice

Born the son of Scottish merchant and fur trader Alexander Ellice and brother of Edward Ellice and Alexander Ellice,{{cite web|title=Robert Ellice|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/42065|website=Legacies of British Slave-ownership|accessdate=12 July 2015}} Ellice was commissioned as an ensign on 8 November 1798.{{cite web|url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Cavalry/Regiments/c_6thDragoon.html|title=Robert Ellice|publisher=Napoleon Series|accessdate=4 December 2015}} He saw action at Buenos Aires in 1807 before becoming Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada in 1809. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Western District in 1840{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aww3AAAAYAAJ&q=Commanding+%22Western+District%22+1841&pg=PA119|title=The United Service Magazine, Part 1|year=1842|page=119}} and General Officer Commanding the British troops in Malta in 1847.{{cite web|url=http://www.stevebidmead.webspace.virginmedia.com/A%20History%20of%20the%20British%20Army%20in%20Malta.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024133704/http://www.stevebidmead.webspace.virginmedia.com/A%20History%20of%20the%20British%20Army%20in%20Malta.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 October 2014|title=A history of the British Army in Malta|accessdate=4 December 2015}}

He was also colonel of the 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot.{{London Gazette|issue=20158|page=3066|date=7 November 1842}}

He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

On 10 December 1814, Ellice married Eliza Courtney, the illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; they had at least four children:

• Robert Ellice (1 January 1816 – 19 December 1858), married Eglantine Balfour,Marriages Solemnized at St George’s Hanover Square, vol. 1a, 277: “BALFOUR Eglantine Charlotte Louisa and ELLICE Robert” 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|1899|6}}
• Eglantine Ellice (9 January 1900 – 1989)
• Russell Ellice (14 November 1902 – 1989)
• Charles Ellice (7 March 1905)
• 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:Burke’s Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 784
• 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.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”
• General Sir Charles Ellice (10 May 1823 – 12 November 1888), married Louisa Lambton in 1862.

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