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Bartlett (SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD an English)

SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD, an English politician, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of American parents, in 1849; graduated at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1872; admitted to the bar in 1877; was a member of Parliament from Eye division of Suffolk in 1880-1885; and from Ecclesall division of Suffolk since 1895; was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1885-1886, and 1886-1892. He is the author of "The Battlefields of Thessaly" (1897). He died in London, 1902.