Husband
In 1809 her "quasi-sister" (but actual aunt) Lady Hannah Althea Grey, widow of George Edmund Byron Bettesworth, married the Member of Parliament and trader the Rt. Hon. Edward "Bear" Ellice (1783â1863). Five years later, on December 10, 1814 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Eliza married Lt. Col. Robert Ellice (1784â1856), a younger brother of her "brother-in-law" Edward Ellice. Their father was the Scots-born Alexander Ellice (1743â1805) of Bath, London and Montreal, a partner in the Schenectady, New York firm of Phyn, Ellice & Co.
In March 1814, Lord Broughton recorded meeting Eliza at dinner and described her as:
the daughter of the late Duchess of Devonshire by Lord Grey, âĤa fine girl, sensible and talkative, and easy mannered.Robert Ellice had been promoted to the military rank of "ensign" on 8 November 1798; to the rank of Captain on 4 May 1801; to Major on 12 May 1808; to Lt. Colonel 16 March 1809; to Colonel 12 August 1819; to Major-General on 22 July 1830; to Lieutenant-General 23 November 1841; to Colonel of the 24th Regiment of Foot (the 2nd Warwickshire) on 2 November 1842; and to General on 20 June 1854. At some point he served in South America and was present at the capture of Buenos Aires.
Ellice was acting Governor-General of Malta for five-and-a-half months, from 13 May to 27 October 1851.
In the 1856 Webster's, he is listed as having a residence at 57 Park Street, Mayfair.
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