Thomas Flower Ellis, FRAS FRS (5 December 1796 – 5 April 1861) was an English law reporter.
[1] Born in Walthamstow, he was educated in Hackney and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in 1818, and was elected a fellow in 1819.
[1] He became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in February 1824, and for some years went to the northern circuit.
After his friend died the light seemed to have gone out of Ellis's life, but he occupied himself in preparing for publication the posthumous collection of Macaulay's essays.
[1] He was, till his death, Attorney-General for the Duchy of Lancaster, and had "Palatine silk"; and in 1839 he succeeded Armstrong as Recorder of Leeds.