Edward Charles Ellice

Captain Edward Charles Ellice (1 January 1858 – 21 February 1934)[1] was Liberal MP for St Andrews Burghs.

Edward Ellice

Background

He was the son of Robert Ellice (1816–1858) and Eglantine "Tina" Balfour (1816–1907), the grandson of Robert Ellice and Eliza Courtney, a grandnephew of Edward Ellice, and a cousin and the heir of the latter's son, heir and namesake, Edward Ellice, who was a previous MP for the constituency.

He married Margaret Georgiana Thomas (1865–1929), daughter of cricketer Freeman Thomas and sister of Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, on 11 April 1889. They had ten children:

  • Marion Ellice (8 October 1890)
  • 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, age 21
  • Margaret Ellice (19 March 1896)
  • Andrew Robert Ellice (13 October 1897 – 28 September 1916) died in World War I, age 18
  • William Ellice (19 December 1898 – 26 November 1914) died in World War I when an internal explosion sank HMS Bulwark, age 15
  • Eglantine Ellice (9 January 1900 – 1989)
  • Russell Ellice (14 November 1902 – 1989)
  • Charles Ellice (7 March 1905)

He was deputy-director of the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway.

Military career

Ellice was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in October 1877, and promoted to captain on 5 August 1886. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he joined Lord Lovat's Corps as a captain of mounted infantry on 21 February 1900.[2] The corps was raised by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat and served in South Africa through the war.

Political career

Ellice was elected at the 1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionists. He sought re-election at the 1906 General Election but was narrowly defeated.[3]

Electoral record
1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election[4][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Edward Charles Ellice 1,324 50.7 +1.9
Liberal Unionist William Anstruther-Thomson 1,288 49.3 -1.9
Turnout
Majority 36 1.4 3.8
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist Swing +1.9
General election January 1906: St Andrews Burghs [4][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist William Anstruther-Gray 1,495 50.4 +1.1
Liberal Edward Charles Ellice 1,472 49.6 -1.1
Majority 23 0.8 2.2
Turnout
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
  2. "No. 27167". The London Gazette. 20 February 1900. p. 1171.
  3. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Henry Torrens Anstruther		 Member of Parliament for St Andrews Burghs
1903–1906		 Succeeded by
William Anstruther-Gray


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