Robert Ellice

Robert Ellice was a British Army officer.

Military career

Born the son of Scottish merchant and fur trader Alexander Ellice and brother of Edward Ellice and Alexander Ellice, Ellice was commissioned as an ensign on 8 November 1798. He saw action at Buenos Aires in 1807 before becoming Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada in 1809. He went on to be General Officer Commanding Western District in 1840 and General Officer Commanding the British troops in Malta in 1847.
He was also colonel of the 24th Regiment of Foot.
He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

On 10 December 1814, Ellice married Eliza Courtney, the illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; they had at least four children:

Robert Ellice, married Eglantine Balfour, sister of Jane Ellice. These two sisters were captured and held captive for a week during the Battle of Beauharnois. The couple had one son:
* Major Edward Charles Ellice he married Margaret Thomas on 11 April 1889. They had ten children:
** Edward Ellice
** Isobel Ellice
** Alexander Ellice died in World War I at the age of twenty-one
** Margaret Ellice
** Andrew Robert Ellice died in World War I at the age of eighteen
** William Ellice died in World War I, at the age of fifteen, when an internal explosion sank
** Eglantine Ellice
** Russell Ellice
** Charles Ellice
Georgiana Ellice, married Hugh Horatio Seymour on 4 November 1846. They had two children:
* Charlotte Susan Seymour she married Charles Campion on 27 May 1879
* Hugh Francis Seymour he married Rachel Lascelles on 15 April 1884. They have five children:
** Sir Horace James Seymour
** Lieutenant Francis Seymour
** Mabel Seymour
** Kathleen Georgiana Seymour
** Mary Gwendolen Seymour
Elizabeth Georgiana Ellice, married Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden on 16 April 1838, and they had ten children.
General Sir Charles Ellice, married Louisa Lambton in 1862.