Alexander Ellice (politician)

During that period, among other services, he took part on 17 August 1812 in – according to the Naval Biographical Dictionary – a spirited skirmish with a powerful Neapolitan squadron in the Gulf of Naples.

[1] He attained the rank of commander on 19 February 1823; and was married on 28 September 1826 to Lucy Frances, daughter of Charles Lock, the British consul-general in Naples during the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799.

[1] Returning to the navy, he was appointed on 6 August 1841 to HMS Astraea on the Falmouth station; and on 10 September 1843 to the Packet service at Southampton, with his name on the books of Victory.

He went on half-pay from 1846 and was appointed on 2 December 1846 to succeed Sir William Edward Parry in the Comptrollership of Steam Machinery;[1] Ellice was replaced after a year by Thomas Lloyd.

[3] The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership notes that Alexander Ellice renounced a claim arising from slaves held on the Morant estate in St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, in favour of one A. R. Blake, but holds no further enlightening details.