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24 unusual facts about Ellis


Ben Ellis

Ben James-Ellis (born 1988), musical theatre performer and contestant on the BBC television series Any Dream Will Do

BenJarvus Green-Ellis

He was named as an All-City selection and as an All-Metro selection, and the Clarion Herald and the New Orleans Times-Picayune named him as an All-District selection.

Brinley Williams

During his service in the War, he was wounded on three occasions, and came to the notice of his battalion commander Lord Howard de Walden, who after the war named a racehorse, Brynfleet, after him.

Cushendun

Cushendun village, was designed for Ronald McNeill, the Conservative MP and author later Lord Cushendun in the style of a Cornish village by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.

Dylan Thomas Trail

The trail runs through Plas Llanina, once the home of Lord Howard de Walden, who encouraged Dylan to write in the mansion’s apple house.

Edward Heaton-Ellis

In November 1916, Heaton-Ellis was appointed chief of staff to Rear-Admiral Sir William Pakenham, commanding the Battlecruiser Squadron, in HMS Lion.

Ellis, Wisconsin

Ellis is located in central Wisconsin approximately six miles northeast of Stevens Point, approximately four miles north of Custer, and approximately six miles southwest of Rosholt, where State Road 66 and Portage County Road J to the south meets with Ellis Road.

Emmer Green

Caversham Place was designed by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis for Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira, whose brother The Rev Edward Thomas Pereira was headmaster and benefactor of The Oratory School.

George Agar

George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797–1833), British politician and man of letters

Hans Feibusch

He carried out several murals in the village of Portmeiron in Wales as a result of his friendship with Clough Williams-Ellis, and his portrait of Ellis is held in the National Portrait Gallery.

Hywel Williams-Ellis

He played the role of Lamb in the television film Dutch Girls (1985), which starred Colin Firth and Timothy Spall, and appeared in three episodes of Dramarama between 1983 and 1985, playing a different character in each.

Listed buildings in Broxton, Cheshire

The interior was partly remodelled and structures in the grounds were created by Clough Williams-Ellis in 1920–23.

Llyswen

A London hatter called Archibald Christy bought the house in about 1860 and later had it extensively redesigned by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, who formed the romantic notion that it was the site of the original 'White Court'.

Nyctosaurus

In the early 2000s, Kenneth Jenkins of Ellis, Kansas collected two specimens of Nyctosaurus which were the first to demonstrate conclusively that not only was this species crested, the crest in mature specimens was very large and elaborate.

Red Molly

In 2007 they toured with Pat Wictor and Ellis, the other winners of the Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist showcase, on the Falcon Ridge Preview tour and performed with them in the Most Wanted Song Swap at the Festival itself.

Register of the National Estate

The expression "national estate" was first used by the British architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and reached Australia in the 1970s.

Romsley, Worcestershire

Hammer Hill House in Romsley, built in 1923, was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis.

Susan Williams-Ellis

Her brother, Christopher (1923–1944), fell in action before Monte Cassino as an ensign in the Welsh Guards.

Tattenhall

Tattenhall is home to a group of houses designed in 1927 by architect Clough Williams-Ellis, famous for creating the Italianate village of Portmeirion in north west Wales.

The Complete Peerage

This version was effectively replaced by a new and enlarged edition between 1910 and 1959 edited successively by Vicary Gibbs (Cokayne's nephew), H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea.

Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden

He was also the maternal grandfather of the writer Miranda Seymour through his daughter Rosemary's marriage to George Fitzroy Seymour.

Essylt Priscilla Scott-Ellis (15 Nov 1916 - 1983) married José Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellvell on 27 September 1945.

Thrumpton Hall

George Fitzroy Seymour 1949 - 1994 (the son of Lady Byron's sister Lady Victoria Seymour (née FitzRoy) and a member of the family of the Marquess of Hertford) and his wife Rosemary, youngest sister of John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden

Vivienne Rae-Ellis

In 2012 she completed a biography of the wife of the painter Thomas Gainsborough, and she has since commenced a novel set in the whaling industry of the 1800s.


2012 Castleford Tigers season

Richard Owen scored 2 tries whilst James Clare, Jordan Thompson, Nick Youngquest, Josh Griffin, Adam Milner and Jamie Ellis (on debut) each scored a try each with Ellis kicking 10 goals.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Dorothea is scheduled to join Bodey and Buddy for their weekly Sunday picnic in Creve Coeur Park, a short trolley car ride away, but she delays her departure, certain Mr. Ellis is going to call.

Adrian Lester

Lester also appeared as Ellis in the hit sitcom Girlfriends from 2002 to 2003, playing a film star who dated Tracee Ellis Ross's character, Joan.

Bebe Moore Campbell

; they raised two children, a son, Ellis Gordon III, and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell, from Campbell's previous marriage to Tiko Campbell.

Boxing in the 1960s

September 14- Jimmy Ellis retains the WBA world Heavyweight title with a fifteen round decision over Floyd Patterson, who was attempting to become the first boxer to hold the world Heavyweight title three times, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Charles Alton Ellis

Charles Alton Ellis (1876–1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore

Two bells hang from beneath the bellcote at the west end, one cast in about 1380 at Wokingham, and the other in 1627 by Ellis Knight of Reading.

Clement Ellis

His father, Captain Philip Ellis (1606–1663), was the steward for Barnaby Potter (1577–1643) Bishop of Carlisle who resided in Rose Castle and who was also Ellis' godfather.

Crime Writers of Canada

The awards are named for Arthur B. English, a British expatriate who, under the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, became Canada’s official hangman in 1913.

Dance United

The performance company has worked with choreographers such as Dam Van Huynh, Sara Dowling, Lizzie Kew Ross, Darren Ellis and John Ross.

Diane Henry

She made into the final three, along with contestants Michael Ellis and Drew Daniel.

Domino Kirke

"The Guard" was produced by Domino, Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto and The Netherlands) Jorge Elbrecht (Lansing-Dreiden and Violens) and was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Echinodontium tinctorium

Hydnofomes tinctorius (Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd

Ellis Gibbons

Ellis Gibbons was evidently counted as having promise by his contemporaries: at the age of 28 he became the only composer, other than the editor Thomas Morley himself, to contribute two madrigals to The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals published in 1601, although the American musicologist Joseph Kerman (in his 1962 comparative study of the English madrigal) states that "possibly one of the two is by Edward Gibbons."

Emil Norlander

Among those recording his songs in America were Ingeborg Laudon, Bert Leman, Gösta Nyström, Elis Olson-Ellis, Hjalmar Peterson, Calle Sjöquist and Charles G. Widdén.

Frank Burton Ellis

The Presbyterian Ellis even vowed to go to Rome to plead with Pope Paul VI to order such shelters in the basement of every Catholic church.

He was well-connected politically, among other relations being a second cousin of Robert Stephen Ellis, Jr. (born 1899), a Louisiana state circuit court judge who was a son-in-law of U.S. Representative Bolivar E. Kemp and a brother-in-law of Louisiana Attorney General Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr. Ellis attended Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Gubb

Philo Gubb, a character created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler

Herbert Ellis

Doug Ellis (Herbert Douglas Ellis, born 1924), British entrepreneur, chairman of Aston Villa Football Club

Hortense Ellis

The rise of the Lovers Rock genre in the late seventies and early eighties led to Ellis cutting cover version of several popular soul classics including "Down the Aisle" (Patti Labelle) and "Young Hearts Run Free" (Candi Staton).

I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl

Ivy performs the song, with the help of Julia, Ellis Boyd (Jaime Cepero), Michael Swift (Will Chase), and Lyle, in front of Lyle's guests.

Jack Cross

City of Silence, a previous collaboration between Ellis and Erskine

James H. Ellis

When, a few years later, Diffie and Hellman published their 1976 paper, and shortly after that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman announced their algorithm, Cocks, Ellis, and Williamson suggested that GCHQ announce that they had previously developed both.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

Jeffrey Mandula

Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (*1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967.

Jerry London

He has also directed ten other miniseries, including the acclaimed The Scarlet and The Black with Gregory Peck, Ellis Island with Richard Burton, and Chiefs with Charlton Heston.

Joel Rafael

In addition to Rafael, honorees were Jimmy LaFave, Don Conoscenti, Ellis Paul, Bob Childers, Terry "Buffalo" Ware and the Red Dirt Rangers.

Ken Birch

A tremendous display by Len Davies in goal kept City in the game, and after 25 minutes of the second half, Ellis headed the ball down into the path of McAllister who slotted the ball past Pontel in the Napoli goal.

Killer whale attacks on humans

In August 2005, while swimming in four feet of water in Helm Bay, near Ketchikan, Alaska, a 12-year-old boy named Ellis Miller was "bumped" in the shoulder by a 25-foot transient killer whale.

LeRon Ellis

LeRon Ellis made local headlines at the start of his sophomore year when became the first African American inducted into the University of Kentucky's Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Lucy Fitch Perkins

Perkins had two children: Eleanor Ellis, a writer, and Lawrence Bradford, an architect.

Madog ap Maredudd

Madog's intervention in the Battle of Lincoln in 1141 forms an important plot element in the detective novel Dead Man's Ransom, part of the Brother Cadfael chronicles by Edith Pargeter (writing as Ellis Peters).

Michael Henne

In the Republican primary, he faced Butler Township Trustee Joe Ellis.

Miserden

The battle and siege scenes in Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters (a pen name of Edith Pargeter) are set in the castle built by the Musard family, given the name of "La Musarderie" in the novel.

Paul Ellis

Ellis was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to the music industry.

Ruth Ellis

The first cinema portrayal of Ellis came with the release of the 1985 movie Dance with a Stranger, directed by Mike Newell and featuring Miranda Richardson as Ellis.

Schwa

Ellis, in his palæotype alphabet, used it for the similar English sound in but.

Sega Pro

Early editorial staff included Dominic Handy (editor), Les Ellis (games editor), Dave Perry (designer), James Scullion and Damian Butt as staff writers.

Spring Street School

Six years later, the school board appointed a committee of two medical doctors, R.W. Ellis and Walter Lindley, to examine the school.

T. E. Ellis

T. E. Ellis was born ar Cefnddwysarn near Bala and attended Bala Grammar School, where his fellow pupils included Owen Morgan Edwards.

The Cubs Fan's Guide To Happiness

The Cubs Fan's Guide to Happiness is a baseball book written by a George Ellis (not cosmologist George Ellis).

Three Chords from the Truth

Three Chords from the Truth is a Canadian television series created by Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis and Adriana Maggs that aired on the Canadian CMT network in 2009, and was also available on Movie Central.

TimeSplitters

In February 1999, several members of the GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark development team — including David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate — left Rare Ltd. to form their own company based in Nottingham, England called Free Radical Design.

U. S. S. R. Life from the Other Side

To promote the record, Vadim put together a live group - The Russian Percussion - consisting of Mr Thing (turntables), Killa Kela (beat box), Blu rum 13 (mc), John Ellis (keyboards).

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

The film also features a wide variety of cross media Ellis collaborators and friends including Joss Whedon, Helen Mirren, Wil Wheaton, Patton Oswalt, Stoya, Zoetica Ebb, and more.

Wayne Fontana

Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, 28 October 1945) is an English rock/pop singer, best known for the 1965 hit "Game of Love" with The Mindbenders.

World Association of Nuclear Operators

James O. Ellis, President and CEO of INPO, Sergey Obozov, Director General of Concern Rosenergoatom, Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO of EDF and Masataka Shimizu, President of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), join the WANO Governing Board.