Ella Grace Elgar (née Pharazyn; 1869–1945) was a New Zealand socialite and art collector.

[7] Her twin sister, Ida, was killed at the age of twelve in a railway accident when a train was blown off the tracks over the Remutaka Range.

[5] In 1890 she married Charles Elgar a well-known owner of racehorses and her father's farm manager and partner.

[12][13][14] Her husband Charles Elgar died in the luncheon interval at Featherston's Tauherenikau Racecourse on 19 April 1930.

[15] Ella Elgar continued living at Fernside until February 1940 when she gave the use of house to the Red Cross 'for the duration of war' as a convalescent home for officers and men of New Zealand Division later known as 2nd New Zealand Division.