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{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant Colonel]]
| name = Sherman Gordon Venn Ellis
| image = Lt_Colonel_Venn_Ellis.jpg
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE|DSO}}
| image_size = 200
| caption = Lieutenant-Colonel Venn Ellis
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1880|2|20}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1937|2|19|1880|2|20}}
| birth_place = [[St Lawrence, Essex|St Lawrence]], [[Essex]], [[England]]
| death_place = [[Karnal]], [[Punjab]], [[British India]]
| burial_place =
| nickname =
| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = [[British Indian Army]]
| service_years = 1899–1937
| rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]]
| unit =
| commands =
| battles = [[First World War]]
| awards = [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br />[[Distinguished Service Order]]
| relations = [[Stanley Venn Ellis]] (brother) <br> [[Sir William Charles Ellis]] (great grandfather)
| other_work =
}}

[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] '''Sherman Gordon Venn Ellis''', [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (1880–1937) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer,<ref>{{cite web |title=We remember Sherman Gordon Venn Ellis |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2452414 |website=Lives of the First World War}}</ref> and colonial administrator who served as the Minister of Finance of the [[Patiala State|State of Patiala]] from 1936 until his death in 1937.

==Early life==
[[File:Ellis arms.svg|thumb|left|150px|Arms of Ellis of Kiddal Hall]]
Ellis was the son of a clergyman Reverend Henry Venn Ellis, rector of [[Alderton, Suffolk|Alderton]], [[Suffolk]] and a descendant of the Ellis family of Kiddal Hall (an old Yorkshire family from which the [[Earl of Normanton|Earls of Normanton]] and [[Viscount Clifden|Viscounts Clifden]], as well as the supposed inventor of Rugby [[William Webb Ellis]] and [[William Ellis (Secretary of State)|Sir William Ellis]] Secretary of State in exile to [[James II of England]] also descended from).<ref>The Publications of the Thoresby Society: Miscellanea. (1891) pg 56</ref> His elder brother [[Stanley Venn Ellis]] was a [[Royal Navy]] [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] who was one of the most senior officers killed at the [[Battle of Jutland]] when his ship [[HMS Defence (1907)|HMS Defence]] sank.

==Career==
Ellis joined the [[West India Regiment]] in 1899, transferring to the West African Regiment in 1900 before finally joining the [[British Indian Army]] in 1904,<ref>{{cite news |title=Military Department, Indian Army |work=Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date=24 February 1904 |page=9}}</ref> where he served for the remainder of his career. Ellis served as Military Accountant-General in India from 1929 to 1935 and was Financial Expert to the Indian Delegation to the [[Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments]] in 1932.<ref>Who's who in India, Burma & Ceylon. (1940). India: Who's Who Publishers (India) Limited. pg 138 </ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2452414 Sherman Gordon Venn Ellis] at ''Lives of the First World War''
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206293/page/n5/mode/2up Historical overview of Patiala State administration] at the Internet Archive
* [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=%22Venn%20Ellis%22 Obituaries and news articles] at the British Newspaper Archive

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[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
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[[Category:People from Maldon District]]
[[Category:West India Regiment officers]]

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