Thomas Evelyn (Ellis) Scott-Ellis (1880 - 1946)

Born 9 May 1880 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margherita Dorothy (van Raalte) Howard de Walden — married 19 Feb 1912 in St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom

Died 5 Nov 1946 at age 66 in London, England

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Thomas Ellis was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Thomas (Ellis) Scott-Ellis is Notable.

Thomas represented Great Britain in motorboating at the 1908 London Summer Olympics

SCOTT-ELLIS , THOMAS EVELYN (1880 - 1946 ), 8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN and 4th BARON SEAFORD, landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts ; b. 9 May 1880, only son of Frederick George Ellis, 7th baron, and Blanche, eldest dau. and co-heir of William Holden, of Palace House, co. Lancaster. Educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he served in the Boer War, and afterwards in World War I . He succeeded, as 8th baron, in 1899. His descent from John Ellis, who was descended from a family of that name seated at Wrexham and who went to Jamaica in the reign of Charles II, is given in Debrett, Burke, and other works on the peerage; the additional name of Scott was adopted by the 8th baron in 1917. He m. 1912, Margherita Dorothy, dau. of Charles van Raalte, and they had 6 children. He lived for years at Chirk Castle, Denbighshire; he inherited Dean Castle, Scotland, in 1901 and in 1929 he bought the Old Hall at Croesnewydd, near Wrexham, which had been the home of his ancestors. He also spent some time at Llanina, Cards.

On the 21st April 1917 his name was legally changed to Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis by royal licence

Buried 9 Nov 1946 at Dean Castle, Killmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland.

Sources

• freeBMD Births Jun Q 1880 St George Hanover Square 1a 450 ELLIS Thomas Evelyn
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p3754.htm#i37540
  
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Scott-Ellis,_8th_Baron_Howard_de_Walden
• http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-SCOT-EVE-1880.html