Edward Charles Ellice

Major Edward Charles Ellice, DSO, JP, DL (1 January 1858 – 21 February 1934)[1] was Liberal MP for St Andrews Burghs.

Educated at Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Ellice was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1876 or 1877, and promoted to captain on 5 August 1886.

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he joined Lord Lovat's Corps as a captain of mounted infantry on 21 February 1900.

[2] The corps was raised by Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat and served in South Africa through the war.

Ellice was elected at the 1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, gaining the seat from the Liberal Unionists.