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purchased in 1870 by Frederick 

 Leyland & Co., and flourished as 

 the Leyland line until 1902, when 

 it was sold, the Atlantic services 

 being acquired by the International 

 Mercantile Marine, an American 

 combine, and the Mediterranean 

 services by Sir J. R. Ellerman. The 

 latter, born 1862, was created C.H. 

 in 1921, and was interested in news- 

 paper enterprises, including The 

 Times. 



The Ellerman lines control 

 the City, Ellerman, Hall, Buck- 

 nail, Papayanni, Westcott and 

 Laurance, and Wilson lines. The 

 City and Hall lines run fast pas- 

 senger steamers from Liverpool to 

 India and Egypt ; the Ellerman 

 and Bucknall lines have a big fleet 

 going to almost all parts of the 

 world Africa, Australia, New Zea- 

 land, India, Mesopotamia, the Far 

 East, and New York ; the West- 

 cott and Laurance line serves the 

 Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and 

 the Danube. The headquarters of 

 the combination are 12, Moorgate 

 Street, London, E.G 



Elles, HUGH JAMIESON (b. 1880). 

 British soldier. Born April 27, 

 1880, he was gazetted to the R.E. 

 in -1899 and 

 served in the 

 South African 

 War 1901-2. He 

 passed the Staff 

 College course, 

 1913-14. Cross- 

 ing with the Ex- 

 peditionary 

 Force in the lat- 

 Hugh J. Elles, fcer year, he 

 British soldier served in France 



throughout the 

 Great War, becoming major, 1915, 

 brevet-lieut. -colonel, 1918, and 

 colonel, 1919. He was promoted 

 temporary major-general com- 

 manding the Tank Corps in 1918. 



Ellesmere. Urban dist. and 

 market town of Shropshire, Eng- 

 land. It is 11 m. S.W. of Whit- 

 church, on the Cambrian Rly., and 

 on the mere and canal of the same 

 name. No traces remain of its 

 castle, whose site is now occupied 

 by a recreation ground ; S. Mary's 

 Church is a fine Gothic structure. 

 Malting and tanning are industries. 

 Market day, Tues. Pop. 1,946. 



Ellesmere. Large island of 

 British N. America. In the Arctic 

 region, N. of Devon Island, it is 

 separated from Greenland by 

 Smith Sound, Kennedy Channel, 

 and Robeson Channel. It is deeply 

 indented, especially on the W. 

 coast, and has the Prince of Wales 

 mountains on the E. It is a desolate 

 tract covered with ice and snow. 



Ellesmere, EARL OF. British 

 title borne since 1846 by the family 

 of Egerton. Francis Leveson- 



Gower, a younger son of the 1st 

 duke of Sutherland, assumed the 

 name of Egerton in 1833, when he 

 inherited the estates of the Eger- 

 tons, dukes of Bridgewater. He 

 was a politician with remarkably 

 enlightened views, and won some 

 distinction as a writer and a patron 

 of the arts. He was created earl of 

 Ellesmere in 1846, and died Feb. 

 18, 1857, and from him the present 

 earl is descended. The earl's chief 

 seat is Worsley Hall, Manchester, 

 but he has property in Shropshire, 

 where is Ellesmere. His eldest son 

 is called Viscount Brackley. 



Ellesmere and Chester Canal. 

 Waterwayof England andWalescon- 

 necting the Dee and Mersey. It con- 

 nects Chester with Ellesmere port, 

 on the Manchester Ship Canal line. 



Ellesmere Port and Whitby. 

 Urb. dist. of Cheshire, England. It 

 is 7 m. N. of Chester, at the junc- 

 tion of the Manchester Ship and 

 Ellesmere Canals. An embankment 

 about 1 m. long separates the Mer- 

 sey from the Manchester Ship 

 Canal. There are large docks, ware- 

 houses, and dyeworks, and syn- 

 thetic indigo is manufactured in 

 large quantities. Pop. 10,366. 



Ellice Islands. Group of coral 

 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Called 

 the Lagoon islands, they lie N. of 

 Fiji, between lat. 5 30' and 11 S. 

 and long. 176 and 179 50' E. 

 The chief industries are connected 

 with phosphates and copra. They 

 were formally annexed by Great 

 Britain in 1916 as the Gilbert 

 and Ellice Islands Colony, and are 

 under the jurisdiction of the high 

 commissioner for the W. Pacific. 



Ellichpur. Town of India, chief 

 town of Berar prov. It is 100 m. W. 

 of Nagpur. Once an important city, 

 its prosperity has declined. By 

 local tradition it is supposed to 

 date from the 1 1th century ; it is 

 known to have been prominent in 

 the 13th century, and then passed 

 under Mahomedan rulers. Besides 

 an old palace, the town contains 

 a number of early remains, in- 

 cluding a burial shrine associated 

 with a mythical hero, Shah Abdur- 

 Rahman. Cotton is the chief in- 

 dustry. Pop. 13,909, three-fifths 

 Hindus, one -third Mahomedans. 



Elliot, JANE OB JEAN (1727- 

 1805). Scottish song writer. The 

 daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd 

 bart., of Minto, she is famous as the 

 author of The Flowers of the 

 Forest, which Sir Walter Scott in- 

 cluded in his Minstrelsy of the 

 Scottish Border, 1802. She died in 

 Edinburgh, March 29, 1805. 



Elliot, JOHN (d. 1808). British 

 lailor. Son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, a 

 Scottish judge, he entered the navy 

 and in 1758 served under Hawke 

 and Anson. He distinguished him- 



self in 1 760 off the coast of Ireland in 

 the capture of three French vessels. 

 After serving in the Mediterranean 

 and at Plymouth he commanded 

 the Trident to America. In 1779 he 

 sailed under Rodney to the relief of 

 Gibraltar, distinguished himself at 

 St. Vincent, v and fought under 

 Kempenfelt. * From 1786-89 he 

 was commander-in-chief at New- 

 foundland, and was promoted 

 admiral, 1 795, when he retired. He 

 died Sept. 20, 1808. 



Elliott, CHARLOTTE (1789-1871). 

 English hymn-writer. She was 

 born at Clapham, March 18, 

 1789, and after an uneventful life, 

 passed for the most part as an 

 invalid, she died at Brighton, Sept. 

 22, 1871. Her hymns, amounting 

 to about a hundred and fifty, made 

 her among the foremost of British 

 women hymn -writers. Many of 

 them became very popular, notably 

 " Just as I am, without one plea." 

 Elliott, EBENEZER (1781-1849). 

 British poet, known as the Com 

 Law Rhymer. Born at Mas- 

 borough, York- . 

 shire, March 17, ^^Jtogtu*. 



1781, he was jF 

 engaged, like ; K 

 his father, in ; : lMi& ,<f 

 the iron trade. 

 He attributed 

 his father's ruin 

 and his own 

 early losses to 

 the bread tax, 

 and in his Corn 

 Law Rhymes 

 (1831) he 

 depicted in vigorous language and 

 with intense feeling the sufferings 

 of the poor under the Corn Laws. 

 His hymn beginning " When wilt 

 Thou save the People?" is still 

 sung. He died at Great Houghton, 

 Dec. 1, 1849. See Life, John Wat- 

 kins, 1850; Poetical Works, ed. 

 Edwin Elliott, 1876. 



Elliott, GRACE DALRYMPLE (c. 

 1758-1823). Reputed mistress of 

 George IV. She was a daughter of 

 Hew Dalrym- 

 ple, an Edin- 

 burgh lawyer, 

 was educated 

 in France, in 

 1771 married 

 John Elliott, 

 and was di- 

 vorced in 1774. 

 About 1782 she 

 gave birth to 

 a daughter, of 

 whom the 

 prince of Wales 

 acknowledged himself the father. 

 She subsequently settled in France, 

 and died near Sevres, May 16, 1823. 

 Her account of her life during the 

 French Revolution was published 

 in 1859. 



Ebenezer Elliott, 

 British poet 



From a contemporary 

 sketch 



Grace Dalrymple 



Elliott, 

 British adventuress 



After Co&iuay 



