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C. Hamilton Ellis
Born
Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis

(1909-06-29)29 June 1909
Died29 June 1987(1987-06-29) (aged 78)
EducationWestminster School
EmployerBritish Railways
Known forRailway painter and author

Cuthbert (Chip) Hamilton Ellis FRSA [1] (29 June 1909 – 29 June 1987) was an English railway writer and painter. He was an Associate of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

He attended Westminster school and is reported to have briefly been at Oxford.[2] He published the first of his 36 books, mostly on railway subjects, at the age of 21.[2]

During 1940 Ellis was sent to Switzerland by MI6 under the guise of reporting for Modern Transport to organise saboteurs, but is reported not to have made contact with his handlers.[2]

Ellis covered a broad range of railway subjects in his books, the best-known of which is The Trains we Loved (Allen & Unwin, 1947). His obituarist in The Times commented that his Railway Carriages in the British Isles from 1830 to 1914 (1965, revised from an earlier book) "despite its near-obsession with matters lavatorial and ablutory ... was an epoch-making work".[3] As a knowledgeable railwayman he appeared in the 1968 TV documentary 4472: Flying Scotsman[4][5] and appeared twice in the BBC TV game show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? in railway themed episodes.[6][7]

He also wrote a small number of novels, such as The Engineer-Corporal (1940) and Dandy Hart (1947). Both of which were fictional, somewhat "voluble [and] long winded", and deeply based on an interest in railway operations, which was also assumed in the reader.[8]

He had an interest in model railways: his 1962 book Model Railways 1838-1939 was said by The Times to have "led the way in charting the early history of this ... hobby".[3] He was an early member and for some time Vice-President of the Historical Model Railway Society.[3]

His 1959 humorous book Rapidly Round the Bend was described as "[doing] for railways what Sellers [sic] and Yeatman had done for general history" (a reference to the authors of 1066 and All That).[3]

He has paintings in the National Railway Museum, the Royal Logistic Corps Museum and the Museum of Island Railway History on the Isle of Wight. The National Portrait Gallery holds two photographs of him, both taken in the 1960s.[9]

Publications

  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1930). Highland Engines and their Work.
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1939). The Grey Men ... Illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1940). The Engineer-Corporal. A story of the American civil war. Terence Cuneo (illus.). {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1941). Rails across the Ranges. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1944). Who wrecked the Mail?. Terence Cuneo (illus.). {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1947). The Trains we Loved. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1947). Dandy Hart. Victor Gollancz. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)[8]
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1949). Nineteenth Century Railway Carriages in the British Isles. Modern Transport Publishing. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1949). Some Classic Locomotives. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1950). Four Main Lines. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 004385012X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1952). The Beauty of Old Trains. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1975) [1953]. The Midland Railway. Ian Allan. ISBN 0711005516. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1956). The South Western Railway. George Allen and Unwin. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1956). A Picture History Of Railways. Hulton's Picture Histories. Hulton Press. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1957). Famous locomotives of the world. Globe Books. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1957). A Picture History of Ships. Hulton. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1957). Trains and Tractors. Allen & Unwin. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1958). Twenty locomotive men. Ian Allan. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1959). The Young George Stephenson. Famous childhood series. William Randell (illus.). Parrish. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1959). The North British Railway. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1959). British Railway History. Vol. 1830–1876. Allen & Unwin. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1959). British Railway History. Vol. 1877–1947. Allen & Unwin. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis; John Peter Roberts (1959). Cars and Trains.
  • Hamilton Ellis (1959). Rapidly Round the Bend. Parrish. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1960). Royal journey: A retrospect of royal trains in the British Isles. British Transport Commission. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1960). The Beauty of Railways. Parrish. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1962). Model Railways 1838-1939. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043850138. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1962). Flying Scotsman, 1862-1962. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043850111. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1962). Popular Carriage: Two Centuries of Carriage Design for Road and Rail. British Transport Commission. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1965). The Splendour of Steam. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043850162. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1965). Railway Carriages in the British Isles from 1830 to 1914. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043850146. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis; H. V. Borley (1966). The History of the Great Northern Railway, 1845-1922.
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1966). Railway history. Dutton Vista. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1968). The Engines That Passed. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043850448. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • Hamilton Ellis (1968). The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways. Paul Hamlyn. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1970). London, Midland and Scottish. A Railway in Retrospect. Ian Allan. ISBN 0711000484. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1971). Perry, George (ed.). King Steam. Selected railway paintings and drawings by C. Hamilton Ellis. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1972). London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. ISBN 071100269X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1974). Railways : A Pictorial History of the First 150 Years. Peebles Press. ISBN 0856900087. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1974). Ships : a pictorial history from Noah's Ark to the U.S.S. United States. Peebles Press. ISBN 0856900079. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1975). British Trains of Yesteryear. ISBN 0711005494. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1975). Royal Trains. ISBN 0710082932. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1975). Steam railways. Book Club Associates. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1977). Railway Art. Ash & Grant. ISBN 0904069109. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
  • C. Hamilton Ellis (1977). The Lore Of The Train. Nordbok. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

References

  1. ^ "Deaths: Ellis". The Times. 1 July 1987. p. 17. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Kevin Jones (8 October 2012). "Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis". Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Mr Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis (obituary)". The Times. 29 July 1987. p. 14. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ "4472: Flying Scotsman (1968)". IMDb. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  5. ^ "Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis". Archive - People. BBC. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  6. ^ "British Railways". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  7. ^ "Railways and Railway Architecture". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Dandy Hart". Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^ "(Cuthbert) Hamilton Ellis (1909-1987), Railway historian and artist". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved September 17, 2016. Includes both images

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