Abraham George Ellis
Abraham George Ellis (born August 26, 1846 in Paramaribo , Suriname , † November 29, 1916 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch vice admiral and non-party politician who, among other things, served as naval minister in the Kuyper cabinet between 1903 and 1905 and as such briefly acting foreign minister in 1905 was.
Life
Abraham George Ellis was a son of the high-ranking court official Johannes Ellis and the former slave Maria Louise de Hart who had been ransomed from Suriname . His father, in turn, was the illegitimate son of Abraham de Veer , who was governor of the Dutch Guiana colony between 1822 and 1828 , and his housekeeper, Fanny Ellis, from Ghana . He himself began training as a naval officer in 1860 , which he completed on December 1, 1874. As first lieutenant at sea, he was the adjutant of the Minister of the Navy and of Vice Admiral Johan Willem Binkes , who later became his father-in-law. He worked in the Dutch East Indies , where he was most recently in command of the naval forces there. He was temporarily used in the naval torpedo department and in the personnel department of the navy. As a captain at sea (Kapitein-ter-zee) he was in 1901 in command of the protected cruiser Mr. Ms. Utrecht . From April 8-10, 1902, he was in a special diplomatic mission to negotiate with the President of Venezuela Cipriano Castro . After his promotion to Rear Admiral ( Schout-bij-Nacht ) of the Royal Navy ( Koninklijke Marine ) on June 2, 1902, he acted between June 2, 1902 and March 16, 1903 as the commanding director of the Willemsoord naval directorate and in personal union as the commandant of the Naval base Den Helder . Because of his tough action against the members of the Sailors' Union , a rather socialist naval association, he was nicknamed as a socialist eater (socialist representative) .
As the successor to Vice Admiral Gerhardus Kruys , who died on December 12, 1902 , Ellis became Minister of the Navy (Minister van Marine) in the Kuyper cabinet on March 16, 1903 and held this ministerial office until August 16, 1905. On June 2, 1904, he was made Vice Admiral (Vice -admiraal) promoted. At the same time he acted between March 9 and April 22, 1905 and again from August 7 to 16, 1905 as acting Foreign Minister (Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken ad interim) . On August 16, 1905, he became Queen Wilhelmina's special adjutant .
On December 1, 1905, AG Ellis retired from active military service and was a co-founder of the Royal Navy Onze Vloot , of which he was president until 1913. In addition, he became a member of the supervisory board of Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij in 1912 and a member of the board of directors of Koloniale Rubber Maatschappij in 1916 . He died of a heart attack during a meeting of this body on November 29, 1916 . For his services he was appointed commander of the Order of the Dutch Lions .
Web links
- Abraham George Ellis in Parlement
- Abraham George Ellis in Prabook
- Entry in Rulers
- Carla Boos: A Surinaamse socialist representative . In: Historisch Nieuwsblad (12/2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abraham de Veer (Rulers)
- ↑ War Minister Lieutenant General Johannes Willem Bergansius was acting Minister of the Navy from December 12, 1902 to March 16, 1903.
- ↑ Kuyper's cabinet in Parliament
- ^ Kabinett Kuyper in De Nederlandse kabinetten from 1901 to 1945
- ↑ The Netherlands: Ministries (Rulers)
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| SURNAME | Ellis, Abraham George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch politician and vice admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paramaribo , Suriname |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1916 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |