词条 | Edward Charles Ellice |
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Captain Edward Charles Ellice (1 January 1858 – 21 February 1934)[1] was Liberal MP for St Andrews Burghs. BackgroundHe 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:
He was deputy-director of the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway. Military careerEllice 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 careerEllice was elected at the St Andrews Burghs by-election, 1903, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionists. He sought re-election at the 1906 General Election but was narrowly defeated.[3] Electoral record{{Election box begin | title=St Andrews Burghs by-election, 1903[4][3]}}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate =Edward Charles Ellice |votes =1,324 |percentage =50.7 |change =+1.9 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party |candidate =William Anstruther-Thomson |votes = 1,288 |percentage =49.3 |change =-1.9 }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = |change = }}{{Election box majority| |votes =36 |percentage =1.4 |change =3.8 }}{{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |loser = Liberal Unionist Party |swing =+1.9 }}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election January 1906: St Andrews Burghs [4][3] }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party |candidate = William Anstruther-Gray |votes = 1,495 |percentage = 50.4 |change = +1.1 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate =Edward Charles Ellice |votes = 1,472 |percentage =49.6 |change = -1.1 }}{{Election box majority| |votes =23 |percentage =0.8 |change =2.2 }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = |change = }}{{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Liberal Unionist Party |loser = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = }}{{Election box end}} References1. ^{{Rayment-hc|s|1|date=March 2012}} 2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27167|page=1171| date=20 February 1900}} 3. ^1 2 The Liberal Year Book, 1907 4. ^1 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
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| title = Member of Parliament for St Andrews Burghs | years = 1903 – 1906 }}{{s-aft | after = William Anstruther-Gray }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellice, Edward Charles}}{{Scotland-Liberal-UK-MP-stub}} 8 : 1858 births|1934 deaths|Scottish Liberal Party MPs|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies|UK MPs 1900–06|Deputy Lieutenants of Inverness-shire|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fife constituencies|20th-century Scottish politicians |
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