Priscilla Scott Ellis

Hon. Esyllt Priscilla "Pip" Scott-Ellis (15 November 1916 – 8 March 1983) was a British diarist. She was one of only two women who volunteered to be nurses for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.

Life Ellis was born in Seaford House in Belgravia in 1916. She was the daughter of Margherita (born van Raalte) and Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden. She was educated at Queen's College, London, privately, at Benenden School and at a finishing school in Paris. Her siblings were Elisabeth Gwendolen (later Robinson) (1914–1976), Hon. Bronwen Mary (later Lindsay) (1912–2003) and John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden (1912–1999).

She met diplomat José Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, in January 1944 and they married at Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 20 September 1945. After their marriage her husband left the Spanish diplomatic service and they lived abroad.

She married, secondly, Ian Hanson, a young opera singer from Manchester, in 1972.

Death and legacy Ellis died in 1983 in Los Angeles. Her diary which she had started to edit for publication in 1939