====== Ellis, R. W. ====== 
 (1887-1976), clergyman and private museum owner. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Maxville, from Jan. 1937 to July 1945. On the eve of the Second World War, he revisited the British Isles. (//Glengarry News// 11 Aug. 1939) He was sometimes noticed in the GC-area newspapers at this time in connection with a private or hobby museum he owned. (e.g., //GN// 29 Sept. 1939, article on his museum; //GN// 7 Oct. 1938, speaks to Maxville Women’s Institute on his museum; //Standard Freeholder// 25 May 1943, high school students, Maxville, visit his museum) In 1942 he had on loan to him a set of pipes played at the Battle of Waterloo (//SFH// 17 April 1942). After leaving Maxville, he was a minister at Manotick and in Westport. In retirement, he and his wife lived in Manotick. He was married in 1915 to Georgina Crouch. One of their children, Robert Arthur Bruce (Bob) retired from the RCAF as a brigadier general (air commodore); he died in Ottawa Oct. 2005.


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<fs small>//Maxville (1991) //549-550 * MacMillan, //Kirk// 195, 202 (portrait) * Ostrom 204b * Bob Ellis: promoted to wing commander, //Glengarry News// 3 April 1958; death, Winter //GN// 26 Oct. 2005
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