Background
Ellis, the son of the Member of Parliament Thomas Edward Ellis, was educated at Westminster School (where he was a King"s Scholar), the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Jesus College, Oxford.
Ellis, the son of the Member of Parliament Thomas Edward Ellis, was educated at Westminster School (where he was a King"s Scholar), the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Jesus College, Oxford.
Jesus College; Aberystwyth University. Westminster School.
He was an assistant master at Cardiff School for Boys from 1924 to 1928, then an assistant lecturer in classics at University College, Swansea from 1928 to 1930. He left to become headmaster of the County School in Rhyl, a post he held for 10 years. He was a lecturer in classics at Street David"s College, Lampeter from 1940 to 1941, then a lecturer at Aberystwyth from 1941 to 1946.
He helped to found the New Wales Union in 1941 and was secretary for 25 years.
He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Wales in 1967 in recognition of his cultural services to Wales, and in the following year he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He served as warden of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales for six years, and as High Sheriff of Cardiganshire from 1944 to 1945.
He died on 20 April 1970.