Background
He was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, to George Ellerton, the head of an Evangelical family.
He was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, to George Ellerton, the head of an Evangelical family.
He was educated at King William"s College on the Isle of Manitoba, and Trinity College, Cambridge, (Bachelor 1849. Master of Arts 1854), where he came under the influence of Frederick Doctorate. Maurice.
He died in Torquay, Devon, England, aged 66. Taking orders in 1850, he was Curate of Easebourne, Sussex. In 1852, he was in Brighton, and Lecturer of Saint Peter"s, Brighton.
In 1860, he became chaplain for Lord Crewe and vicar of Crewe Green in Cheshire, about thirty miles southeast of Liverpool.
He became chairman of the education committee at the Mechanics Institute for the local Railway Company. Reorganizing the Institute, he made it one of the most successful in England.
He taught classes in English and Bible History. He also organized one of the first Choral Associations of the Midlands.
In 1872 he became Rector of Hinstock, Shropshire.
In 1876, he was transferred to Barnes, (then in Surrey), a western suburb of London. The work among a large population broke him down and he had to go abroad for a year, serving as Chaplain at Pegli in Italy from 1884-1885. After returning, he took a smaller parish in White Roding in 1886, his last.
During his final illness, he was given the honorary title of Canon of Saint Albans Cathedral.