Drs Henry Ellis and Ellis Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis (died 1869) was a physician and surgeon at Bangor in north Wales. Dr Ellis also ran an apothecary business at High Street, Bangor with his second son Ellis Henry Ellis (1848-1882), also a physician and a man of wide ranging cultural interests. Henry Ellis and his wife Anne had nine other children including Catherine (1846-1922), the eldest daughter, who was one of the first women to undertake training as a medical doctor. She began studying at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London but her medical career was ended by her father's sudden death in 1869. For the rest of her life she was involved in social work, including the pioneering development of reading facilities for the blind in north Wales. Another of Henry Ellis' daughters, Grace Ellis, was Assistant Librarian at the University of Wales, Bangor.