Ellis Hillman

Ellis Simon Hillman (17 November 1928 – 21 January 1996) was a British Labour politician, local councillor, Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet (1994–95) and polytechnic history lecturer.

His father was David Hillman, a well known producer of stained glass. He was born into a political family, related both to American labour leader Sidney Hillman and Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel. He was recruited to the Revolutionary Communist Party by Annie Roy in 1946 and joined its Kilburn branch. During this period he wrote to Natalia Sedova, Leon Trotsky's widow, about questions relating to the Soviet Union and the history of the Left Opposition. This followed by a further document, On Organic Unity, where he advocated the group fuse with that of Ted Grant, which led to his expulsion.

Hillman then joined Gerry Healy's Club; however, he became a secret sympathiser of the Revolutionary Socialist League. and a founder member of the Militant editorial board. His first act was to remove a bust of Margaret Thatcher from Hendon Town Hall.

Hillman, who lived in Hendon, died at the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green in January 1996 whilst undergoing heart bypass surgery.