Thomas Ellis

Thomas Ellis (1711 or 1712 – 23 February 1792) was a Welsh clergyman.

Life Ellis was born in Meliden, Flintshire, in North Wales. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 5 February 1728 at the age of 16. He obtained his B.A. degree in 1731, and a B.D. degree in 1741. He was a Fellow of the college from 1731 to 1761, becoming Senior Fellow. In 1737, the college appointed him as curate of the church in Holyhead, Anglesey, where he was a supporter of the schools of Griffith Jones, making efforts to see that the schools were regarded by the local people as Anglican rather than Methodist or Dissenting views. He published a warning against schism in 1746, , and asked John Wesley (who visited Holyhead in March 1748) to make it clear that Wesley was advising Methodists not to leave the Church. This led to Wesley's A Word to a Methodist, which Ellis translated into Welsh and had printed in Dublin as .