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GEORGE ELLIS (1753-1815)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:ELLIS (1753-1815)  , See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:London in 1753 . Educated at See also:Westminster school and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he began his See also:literary career by some satirical verses on See also:Bath society published in 1777, and Poetical Tales, by " See also:Sir See also:Gregory Gander," in 1778 . He contributed to the Rolliad and the Probationary Odes See also:political satires directed against See also:Pitt's See also:administration . He was employed in See also:diplomatic business at the See also:Hague in 1784; and in 1797 he accompanied See also:Lord See also:Malmesbury to See also:Lille as secretary to the See also:embassy . On his return he was introduced to Pitt, and the See also:episode of the Rolliad, which had not been forgotten, was explained . He found continued See also:scope for his See also:powers as a political caricaturist in the columns of the See also:Anti-Jacobin, a weekly See also:paper which he founded in connexion with See also:George See also:Canning and See also:William See also:Gifford . For some years before the Anti-Jacobin was started See also:Ellis had been working in the congenial See also:field of See also:Early English literature, in which he was one of the first to arouse See also:interest . The first edition of his Specimens of the Early English Poets appeared in 1790; and this was followed by Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (18o5) . He also edited Gregory See also:Lewis Way's See also:translation of select Fabliaux in 1796 . Ellis was an intimate friend of Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, who styled him " the first converser I ever saw," and dedicated to him the fifth See also:canto of Marmion . Some of the See also:correspondence between them is to be found in See also:Lockhart's See also:Life . He died on the loth of See also:April 1815 .

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monument erected to his memory in the See also:parish See also:church of See also:Gunning See also:Hill, Berks, bears a See also:fine inscription by Canning .

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