Edward Ellice

Edward Ellice the Younger (19 August 1810 – 2 August 1880) was a British Liberal Party politician and landowner.

Life He was the eldest son of Edward Ellice, from his first marriage to Hannah Althea Grey, the youngest sister of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. The Ellice family was English by descent, and had settled in Aberdeenshire in the mid-17th century.

Ellice continued as Durham's private secretary during his term as Governor-General of the Province of Canada; whilst he was working in Canada, his wife Katherine and her sister were captured for six days during the Rebellions of 1837–1838.

He remained a backbencher throughout his political career, taking special interest in the reform of the Scottish Poor Laws. and retired from Parliament in early 1880, shortly before his death aged 69. Following her death in 1864, Ellice married in 1867 Eliza Stewart, daughter of Thomas Campbell Hagart of Bantaskine, widow of Alexander Spiers of Elderslie.