Henry Bramley Ellis

Henry Bramley Ellis FRCO (1841 – 1910) was an organist, composer, conductor and teacher based in Leicester.[1]

Life

He was born in Newark on Trent in 1841. His father, Edward Ellis, was verger at St. Mary Magadalene's Church, Newark on Trent, and he sang in the choir at the church.[2]

He had organ lessons from the organist, Edward Dearle, and became his assistant.[3]

He married Ellen Howard Brown in 1866. They had the following children:

  • Harold Bramley Ellis (1869 - 1937)
  • Ethelwyn Howard Ellis (1869 - 1948)
  • Leonard Ellis (b. 1871)
  • Gerald Haydn Ellis (1873 - 1967)
  • Cecil Henry Ellis (1874 1963)
  • Sydney Ellis (b. 1877)

He was Music Master at Wyggeston Girls’ School.

Whilst in Leicester he conducted the Leicester Amateur Vocal Society from 1879, which became the Leicester Philharmonic Society in 1886. He maintained this position until his death in 1910.

He was also an organ teacher, and his pupil Benjamin Burrows succeeded him at St Mary de Castro, Leicester on the death of Ellis in 1910.

Appointments

Works
  • The Fairies, polka for Piano 1869
  • The Tournament. Galop for Piano 1873
  • O were my love yon lilac fair. Song. 1879
  • To a Redbreast. Son. 1880
  • Jubilee March 1887

References
  1. Stratton and Brown, Stephen Samuel and James (1897). British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies. S.S. Stratton.
  2. Nottingham Evening Post. Nottingham Evening Post. 27 April 1910.
  3. Lincolnshire Chronicle. Lincolnshire Chronicle. 12 March 1864.
  4. Leicester Journal. Leicester Journal. 12 December 1873.
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