SUDDEN DEATH OF THE KING'S EQUERRY.
"WHILE AT COVENT GARDEN . OPERA riOUSE. . [Unitpd Pbbss Association.:~Copx- ';■... '■■-..■ .BIGHT.] ■■ '(Received June 13, 9.15 a.m.) v. : ... .. LONDON, Wednesday. Major-General . . Sir '.. Arthur Ellis, Comptroller- of , the Accounts to the King's Household,- and Equerry to Ms Majesty, died suddenly in the stalls of Cogent Garden -Opera. House- during a gala; performance of -an opera. The public/ imagined that he had only fainted. The news was withheld from the King and the Danish guests until after the; performance. . -". King Edward was greatly shocked..' , ; . ' '. (Major-Generay Sir, Arthur Edward Ellis, v G.C.V.O. ■;. (1902), K.C.V.O. (1897)/ C.S.I. .(1876),, was born at Gibraltar.in Decembtr/ 1837, and was the! second, son" qf Col. .the .Hon. Augustus j Ellis; He married. in 1864 the Hon. i Miria Labo'uchere, daughter'-; of the first { j and last'BaronTauntbn. Hewas in the Crimean war;- and' in India, and he was -■appointed Equerry to the Prince of Wales (now King Edward) in 1867. He was Queen's Sergeant at Arms in the House of Lords from 1898 to 1901.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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