Abraham George Ellis

1812), was the illegitimate child of Abraham de Veer, governor of the Dutch Gold Coast (in present-day Ghana) and his Ghanaian housekeeper Fanny Ellis.

Her father, a Jewish plantation owner named Mozes-Meijer de Hart had purchased her family's freedom when she had been just a few months old.

[4] He spent over forty years in the navy serving tours to the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, China, South America and Japan.

He remained closely associated to the navy and marine business interests and later died from a heart attack in November 1916 during a board meeting of the Colonial Rubber Company in Amsterdam.

[3] In 1889 Ellis married Elisabeth Maria Anna (1861–1943) the daughter of his former superior, Vice Admiral Johann Willem Binkes.