Background
His father and grandfather were merchants there, and mayors of the borough. In 1719, his father being mayor, the Yarmouth corporation appointed him minister of Street George"s Chapel in the own.
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Anthony Ellys
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He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1712, Master of Arts
Career
Born at Yarmouth in Norfolk, he was baptised on 8 June 1690. in 1716, and Doctor of Divinity in 1728, on the occasion of a royal visit to the university. He became a fellow of his college and took holy orders. He became in 1721 a chaplain to Lord-chancellor Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, in 1724 vicar of Street Olave, Jewry, and prebendary of Gloucester, and in 1729 vicar of Great Marlow also, without surrendering earlier preferments.
In 1723 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In October 1752 he was appointed bishop of Saint David"s, and consecrated on 28 January in the following year. Ellys continued to hold his prebend and his city living in commendam, and went every Sunday morning in winter from his house in Queen Square to preach to his parishioners.
He died at Gloucester on 16 January 1761, and was buried in the south aisle of Gloucester Cathedral. Ellys was a moderate Whig.
Views
Ellys was a moderate Whig. There was some objection to the nomination of an upholder of the Test Acting as bishop. But Archbishop Thomas Herring, supported Ellys"s preferment, a safe pair of hands and attached to the ecclesiastical establishment.
Ellys gave little support to the scheme of John Jones of Welwyn for establishing a seminary for clerical education in his diocese.
The books offered by Jones to the bishop were transferred to the presbyterian academy at Carmarthen.
Membership
Royal Society.
