Lieut.-Col. C. Heaton-Ellis Knighted
Satisfaction and pleasure is expressed on all sides at the honour conferred on Col. C. Heaton-Ellis, of Wyddiall Hall, Buntingford, the King having conferred the honour Knighthood in the Birthday honours list week.
Col. Heaton-Ellis, who is the popular Chairman of the Hitchin Division Conservative and Liberal Unionist Association, was born in 1864, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1885, he jointed the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (Herts. Militia), then commanded by Col. R.B. Fellows, C.B., and in 1900 served in South Africa, and in the Great War both with his regiment and on special service under the Admiralty.
He was awarded the C.B.E. (Military) and thr 1914-15 star, retiring after the war as Lieut.-Colonel. He was a member of the Herts County Council 1903-1919, representing Layston (Buntingford) division; is Chairman of the Buntingford Petty Sessional Division; a Deputy Leiutenant for Herts; and was joint Secretary of the Puckeridge Hunt, with Mr Tresham Gilbey, in 1904-5.
He was elected Chairman of the North Herts Conservative Association on the retirement of the late Mr Delme-Radcliffe in 1906, and has held that position ever since.
It is his proud boast that during those many years he has invariably received the most whole-hearted and loyal support of his colleagues, and that the seat has always been held by members of the Conservative Party - the late Dr Hillier, Lord Cecil (best known in North Herts as "Lord Robert,") who was member for 11 years, and now by the present popular member, Major Guy Kindersley.
Col. Heaton-Ellis is a freemason, and an officer of the Grand Lodge, and has travelled extensively in Australia, East Africa, and the West Indies. In July, 1923, he and Mrs Heaton-Ellis accompanied by Lieut.-Col. L.G. Murray, commanding the 2nd King's African Rifles, crossed a little known part of Tanganyika Colony (late "German East") on a hunting expedition of over a month's duration, and obtained some interesting trophies. The party at one time was in a part of the country where the natives had never seen a white woman.
The Colonel takes an active interest in all local institutions, and the whole district offers heartiest congratulations to him and to Lady Heaton-Ellis on the great honour conferred upon them.
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