Howard Ellis (public servant)

Sir Samuel Howard Ellis MBE (2 June 1889 – 19 January 1949) was a New Zealand lawyer, public servant and cricketer.

Sir Howard Ellis
MBE
Personal information
Full nameSamuel Howard Ellis
Born(1889-06-02)2 June 1889
Waipu, New Zealand
Died19 January 1949(1949-01-19) (aged 59)
Auckland, New Zealand
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 June 2016

Early life

Ellis was born in 1889 in Waipu, where his father was headmaster of the local school.[1] He attended Auckland Grammar School, before studying at Auckland University College.[2]

After leaving university, Ellis worked as a lawyer and was called to the bar in New Zealand in 1912.[3] He moved to Fiji the following year.[2]

During World War I he served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and the Royal Flying Corps. He was shot down over France in 1916 and taken prisoner, but was exchanged in 1918 and joined the Royal Air Force.[1] He was awarded a military MBE in 1918.[2] After returning to Fiji following the war, Ellis later joined the civil service and became Director of Labour and National Service.[2] In this role he also served on the Executive Council, and was knighted in the 1943 Birthday Honours.[2]

Cricket career

A wicketkeeper-batsman, Ellis played three first-class cricket matches for Auckland in 1911/12.[4]

Personal life

Howard married twice. His first marriage was to Mary Mackenzie, the daughter of New Zealand Prime Minister Thomas Mackenzie, in London in 1918.[5] She died in 1924.[1] The second was to Nell Joske in 1926.[1][3] He died in Auckland in January 1949 at the age of 59.[3]

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gollark: But the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the price
gollark: Very unrelated to anything, but I recently read about how TV licensing works in the UK and it's extremely weird.
gollark: "I support an increase in good things and a reduction in bad things"

See also

References
  1. "Death of Sir Howard Ellis, M.B.E." Waikato Independent: 4. 21 January 1949.
  2. New Knight for Fiji Pacific Islands Monthly, July 1943, p7
  3. Death of Sir Howard Ellis of Fiji Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1949, p28
  4. "Samuel Ellis". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  5. "The Wedding of Miss Mary Mackenzie". Otago Witness: 32. 7 August 1918.
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