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'''Robert Stanton Ellis''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (also spelled '''Staunton'''; 6 March 1825{{efn|''The Charterhouse Register'' lists his date as 7 March 1825.<ref>{{cite book |title=Charterhouse Register 1769-1872: With Appendix of Non-Foundationers 1614-1769 |date=1974 |publisher=Phillimore |isbn=978-0-85033-081-6 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=448PAQAAIAAJ&q=Robert+Staunton+Ellis+b.+7+March+1825 |accessdate=15 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>}}<ref name="baptism">''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917''</ref> – 9 October 1877) was a British civil servant of the Indian civil service who served as a member of the [[Madras Legislative Council]].<br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
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Ellis was born in 1825 in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="baptism"/> On clearing the civil service examinations, Ellis moved to Madras in 1844.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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Ellis was put in the police department and served as Deputy Commissioner of Nagpur and Superintendent of Police during the [[Indian Rebellion]]. He served as Chief Secretary to the Madras government from 1870 to 1872 when he was nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]]. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1872 to 1877 and as a member of the Executive Council of the [[Viceroy of India]] until his death on 9 October 1877.<br />
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* {{cite book | title=Dictionary of Indian Biography| last=Buckland| first=C. E.| year=1906|url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/137/mode/1up| publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co| location=London| page=137}}<br />
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