Sir Henry Ellis, KCB, PC (1 September 1788 – 28 September 1855) was a British diplomat.
Ellis was the illegitimate son of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. The identity of his mother is unknown, but he was brought up in his father's household. He was educated at Harrow School in 1799–1803, and at William Nicholson's Private Academy in Soho in 1804–5. He joined the Honourable East India Company in 1805, and in 1808, became an assistant t...
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Sir Henry Ellis, KCB, PC (1 September 1788 – 28 September 1855) was a British diplomat.
Ellis was the illegitimate son of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. The identity of his mother is unknown, but he was brought up in his father's household. He was educated at Harrow School in 1799–1803, and at William Nicholson's Private Academy in Soho in 1804–5. He joined the Honourable East India Company in 1805, and in 1808, became an assistant to Sir John Malcolm. In 1809, Malcolm obliged Lord Minto by sending Ellis to join his second mission to Sindh. On his return, Ellis wrote a damning account of the Emir, which formed the basis of British attitudes to the territory until it was annexed in 1843.
In 1810, Ellis joined Malcolm's third mission to Persia. From 1812 to 1814, he served as private secretary to his father when the latter was President of the Board of Control. In 1814, he returned to Persia on a secret mission to obtain revisions of the Preliminary Treaty of Friendship and...
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