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Did you know... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's
Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?
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A middle name was added by
Mikesiva though without the evidence provided by a source. At this time I have removed that middle name. The contemporaneous records of his time, and the 19th century biographical works do not cite a middle name, and I would like to see a source, even of a primary source to confirm its use. —
billinghurstsDrewth 11:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)reply
I can easily provide you with a source. Barry Higman, "Montpelier: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom 1739-1912" (1998), p. 20. Higman is a respected academic historian on the subject of slavery in Jamaica. Feel free to reinstate the middle name "Rose".
Mikesiva (
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A fact from George Ellis (poet) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2012 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's
Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
join the project and
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poetry on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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A middle name was added by
Mikesiva though without the evidence provided by a source. At this time I have removed that middle name. The contemporaneous records of his time, and the 19th century biographical works do not cite a middle name, and I would like to see a source, even of a primary source to confirm its use. —
billinghurstsDrewth 11:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)reply
I can easily provide you with a source. Barry Higman, "Montpelier: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom 1739-1912" (1998), p. 20. Higman is a respected academic historian on the subject of slavery in Jamaica. Feel free to reinstate the middle name "Rose".
Mikesiva (
talk) 11:32, 9 May 2020 (UTC)reply