Windsor People
Rev Henry Ellison
Henry John Ellison, the son of a London solicitor, was successively perpetual curate of All Saints, Brighton (1840-43), vicar of Edensor (1845-55), vicar of New Windsor and reader at Windsor Castle (1855-75), and rector of Great Haseley (1875-94). He held a prebend in Lichfield Cathedral (1854-73), honorary canonries at Christ Church, Oxford (1873-94) and Canterbury (1894-99), and a chaplaincy-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria (1879-99). He was one of the founders in 1862 of the Church of England and Ireland Temperance Reformation Society (of which he was chairman until 1891) and in 1876 of the Police Court Mission. In 1854 he married Mary Dorothy (d 1870), daughter of Sir Joshua Jebb, surveyor-general of HM Prisons.
The Rev.Henry J Ellison proposed a new Royal Free School building and set out his proposals in a letter to the Windsor and Eton Express in 1859
The Rev Henry Ellison founded the Windsor Temperance Society in 1858. Meetings were held in the Free School”
Letter to the Windsor and Eton Express 1859
1862 Contributions for New School Building
St George’s Chapel Archives holds the personal papers of Henry John Ellison
