English MP; he was the cousin of George Ellis and friend of George Canning, who had him created Lord Seaford in 1826. He had been Canning's second in the 1809 duel with Castlereagh.

REFERENCES TO Charles Rose Ellis, first baron Seaford:

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Folkestone to Thomas Creevey, 21 September 1809 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 26 September 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Richard Sharp to Samuel Rogers, 2 December 1814 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)