Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden

Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden and 2nd Baron Seaford GCB (5 June 1799 – 29 August 1868), was a British diplomat and politician.

Lineage

Ellis was the son of Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford and his wife, the Honourable Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of John Hervey, Lord Hervey, eldest son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, the "Earl-Bishop" of Derry. Educated at Eton College, He succeeded his great-grandfather Lord Bristol in the barony of Howard de Walden on 8 July 1803, aged four.

Political and diplomatic career

Lord Howard de Walden became an Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 24 April 1817.^[1] He served as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 26 May 1824 to 9 June 1828, during which time he acted as Attaché to Lord Stuart de Rothesay on a mission to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (January 1826). This role allowed him to move into international diplomacy, as he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Stockholm, Sweden, from 2 October 1832, to the court of Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 November 1833, and at Brussels, Belgium, from 10 December 1846. Lord Howard de Walden was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 22 July 1838 and a Grand Cross of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword in 1841. He succeeded in the barony of Seaford on the death of his father in July 1845.

Family

Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828. They had seven sons:^[2]

• Frederick George Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden (9 August 1830 – November 1899).
• Harriette Georgina Ellis (3 September 1831 – 16 April 1906). She married in 1875 Michelangelo Caetani, 13th Duke of Sermoneta.^[3]
• Hon. William Charles Ellis (22 July 1835 – 20 June 1923).
• Hon. Charles Arthur Ellis (December 1839 – 30 March 1906).
• Hon. John Charles Ellis (29 September 1841 – 8 November 1886).
• Hon. Evelyn Henry Ellis (9 August 1843 – 5 September 1913). Ellis was an early patron of Daimler launches and cars and first distance motorist in England - Southampton to Malvern, July 1895 on a 3½hp Daimler-engined French Panhard & Levassor car. His cousin, Sir Arthur Ellis's post as an equerry to the Prince of Wales directly led to the adoption of Daimler cars as official royal transport.
• Augustus Charles William Ellis (5 February 1846 – 22 April 1882).

Lord Howard de Walden died in August 1868 at Belgium, aged 69, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick George Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden. Lady Lucy Joan Howard de Walden died in July 1899 in St. James House, West Malvern, Worcestershire .

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• "Archival material relating to Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden". UK National Archives.