Mary "Dick" Baxter Ellis CBE (12 November 1892 – 12 April 1968) was a British commanding officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, also known as FANY.

Her mother was Mary Sharpe Taylor and her father would be made the first Lord Mayor of Newcastle in 1907 and he would in time be Sir Joseph Baxter Ellis.

[4] Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was first made Chief Controller of the newly formed Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in 1939.

[5] This was a role that Ellis had turned down as she preferred to lead the volunteer First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANYs).

[7] Ellis went to live with her loyal friend the artist Marjorie (Tony) Kingston Walker where they painted and cared for dogs[8] at Bellingham and West Woodburn and died in a hospital in Corbridge in 1968.