found: Boston election, 1818:t.p. (Henry Ellis)
found: BL database, 8 July 2011(old hdg.: Ellis, Henry, Right Hon. Sir, Third Commissioner of the Embassy to China)
found: Oxford DNB online, 8 July 2011:(Sir Henry Ellis, diplomatist; born 1 Sept. 1788; in 1816 accompanied Earl Amherst on his mission to China and recorded his experiences in "A journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China"; unsuccessfully contested Boston at a by-election in 1818; in 1830 published "A series of letters on the East India question"; 1835-6 was briefly ambassador in Persia; died 28 Sept. 1855 in Brighton)
