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Ellis, Henry, 1788-1855

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Personal name headingEllis, Henry, 1788-1855
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Found inBoston election, 1818: t.p. (Henry Ellis)
BL database, 8 July 2011 (old hdg.: Ellis, Henry, Right Hon. Sir, Third Commissioner of the Embassy to China)
Oxford DNB online, 8 July 2011: (Sir Henry Ellis, diplomatist; born 1 Sept. 1788; in 1816 accompanied Earl Amherst on his mission to China and recorded his experiences in "A journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China"; unsuccessfully contested Boston at a by-election in 1818; in 1830 published "A series of letters on the East India question"; 1835-6 was briefly ambassador in Persia; died 28 Sept. 1855 in Brighton)