Commander Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough (9 May 1841 – 9 December 1915), was a British Royal Navy officer and member of the House of Lords.

Law was educated at Charterhouse and entered the Royal Navy in 1854 aged just 13.

During the American Civil War, he was serving on the North America and West Indies Station.

In 1873, he was lieutenant commanding HMS Coquette, and saw service during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War and was awarded the Ashanti Medal.

[3] Lord Ellenborough married in 1906 Hermione Octavia Croghan Schenley, daughter of E. W. H. Schenley, of Pittsburgh, and ward of Andrew Carnegie,[4] and they lived at Windlesham Court in Surrey.