Edmund Ellis (cricketer)


Edmund Henry Ellis was an English first-class cricketer and solicitor.
The son of George Henry Ellis, he was born at Battersea in February 1841 and was educated at Rugby School. Ellis played first-class cricket on three occasions for the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1861 to 1863, playing a match each against Hampshire, Middlesex and Oxford University. He scored 31 runs in his three matches, with a highest score of 28 not out. He was by profession a solicitor, having been admitted in 1864. He was married to Dorothea Hilda Danvers, daughter of Sir Juland Danvers. He later added her surname to his to be known as Edmund Henry Ellis-Danvers. Ellis died at Chelsea in March 1910.