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 ELLIOTT, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1792–1874)

Son of Capt. John Elliott, R.N. : born in 1792, entered the 51st regt. in 1809, remained in it until 1852 : served in the Peninsula, was at Waterloo, at Cambrai, in the Ionian Islands, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, Bangalore : in 1852, he commanded the Madras Brigade in the Burmese war, under General Godwin : was at the capture of Rangoon and the storming of the Shwe-Dagon pagoda in April, 1852 : in the capture of Donabew : C.B. and Commandant at Rangoon, where he detected and defeated a plot to kill all the English in that city : Maj-General in 1857 : K.C.B. in 1862 : G.C.B. in 1870 : General in 1871 : died on Feb. 27, 1874.

ELLIS, SIR BARROW HERBERT (1823–1887)

I.C.S. : born Jan. 24, 1823 : son of S. Herbert Ellis, a leading member of the Jewish community : educated at University College School, London University, and Haileybury : went to Bombay in 1843 : served in Sind from 1851–58, acting for some time as Chief Commissioner during Sir Bartle Frere's absence : was Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government and Member of Council, Bombay, 1865–70 : Member of the Supreme Council of the Governor-General, 1869–75 : K. C.S.I, in Oct. 1875, and Member of the Council of India, 1875–85 : after his retirement he was an authority among his co-religionists, and a Member and Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society : died June 20, 1887.

ELLIS, FRANCIS WHYTE ( ? –1819)

I.C.S. : Oriental linguist : joined at Madras in 1796 : Secretary to the Board of Revenue, 1802 : Collector of Madras, 1810 : died of cholera at Ramnad, March 10, 1819. He was an excellent Tamil and Sanskrit scholar : published a commentary and translation of The Sacred Kurral, and exposed the forgery of Sanskrit MSS. at Pondicherry by Jesuit missionaries : he wrote papers on the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages, and was an expert authority on "Mirasi right": and on information regarding the Madras Presidency.

ELLIS, ROBERT STAUNTON (1825–1877)

I.C.S. : went out to Madras in 1844 : was Deputy Commissioner of Nagpur and Superintendent of Police in the mutiny : C.B. : was Chief Secretary to the Madras Government, 1870 : Member of Council at Madras, 1872–7 : retired : Member of the Council of India in 1877 : died Oct. 9, 1877.

ELPHINSTONE, JOHN, THIRTEENTH BARON (1807–1860)

Governor : and Lt-General : son of John, twelfth Lord Elphinstone : born June 23, 1807 : succeeded his father in 1813 : entered the Royal Horse Guards in 1826 : was a Lord-in-waiting, 1835–7 : G.C.H. in 1836 : Governor of Madras from March 1837, to Sep. 1842, during an uneventful period : encouraged the practice of resorting to the Nilgiri hills for the hot weather : travelled in Kashmir and Upper India : returned to England in 1845 : Lord-in-waiting again : Governor of Bombay, Dec. 1853, to May, 1860, during the mutiny, in which he showed his capacity for administration, suppressing all risings and annihilating a conspiracy in Bombay. He afforded great assistance to the Government of India by sparing troops from Bombay for the disaffected parts of the country : G.C.B. in 1858 : raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 1859 : died July 19, 1860.

ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (1779–1859)

Governor : I.C.S. : son of John, eleventh Baron Elphinstone : born Oct. 6, 1779 : educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and at Kensington : went out to Bengal as a "writer" in the E.I. Co.'s service in 1795 : stationed at Benares, he had to ride for his life when European officers, including Cherry, the Agent to the Governor-General, were massacred there in Jan.1799, by order of Wazir Ah, the Ex-Nawab of Oudh. In 1801 he was appointed Assistant to Sir Barry Close, the Resident at the court of Baji Rao, the Peshwa at Poona : at the battles of Assaye and Argaum, he was on the Staff of Colonel Arthur Wellesley, who told him that he ought to have been a soldier. He was Resident at Nagpur from 1804 to 1808 : was sent as Envoy to Kabul, with a view to establish English influence there