A very prosperous banking executive, estate agent and auctioneer among his legacies was a fire station at Byfleet, Surrey; he sat on the boards of various hospitals and his wife was also engaged in charities.

He equipped three of his market/domestic gardeners – the Place had attached 17 acres[3] – with three lengths of hose and an obsolete manual pump, put on wheels, kept in a potting shed.

[5] When that area was abolished he was nominated for and won the 1885 general election and that of the next year for the inceptive Kingston upon Thames seat which took in Richmond but retired in 1892.

[11] 15 High Road, his former front block of the family home, is locally listed, under category "AH", architectural merit.

[12] In 1895 a bust of Ellis was unveiled in Richmond Town Hall by Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck;[8] this is still displayed in the staircase alcove.

She was also one of the presidents of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association and took a prominent part in the establishment of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.