MAJOR-GENERAL'S SUDDEN DEATH.
SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE IS ', A THEATRE.
' LONDON, June 12. Major-general Sir Arthur Ellis, Comp* troller of the King's Household, died suddenly in the stalk at Covent Garden Opera House during the gala performance in honour of the King and Queen of Denmark. The public imagined he had only fainted. The news was withheld from the King and the Danish guesf s until after the performance. King Edward was greatly shocked on hearing of the sad; occurrence.
Sir Arthur Ellis was born at Gibraltar in 1837. He entered the army, and served in the Crimea and in India. He was appointed Equerry to the Prince of Wale* in 1867, and was made major-general in 1885. He was Queen's Sergeant-at-Arnu in the House of Lords from 1898 to 1901.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 19
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