About Thomas Ellis
Lived 1569 – 1627 (aged 57–58). Thomas Ellis was a politician.
Sir Thomas Ellis (1569–1627) was a lawyer and the member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in 1597.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Ellis of Wyham by Jane (d. 1605), daughter of John Hutchinson of Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in November 1586 and entered Gray's Inn in May 1589. He was called to the bar and subsequently pursued his career in the North of England rather than London.
He succeeded his father in 1605, by which time he was married to Jane (d.1661), daughter of Gabriel Armstrong of Wysall, Nottinghamshire. He served as a member of the Council of the North from July 1616 until his death. In April 1617 he was knighted at York. Elizabeth married Peter Ashton of Grantham
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