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Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1713)
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Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip
English politician
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, PC, FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 53 years from 1741 to 1794 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Mendip. He held a number of political offices, including briefly serving as Secretary for the Colonies in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Secretary of State for the Colonies
British Cabinet minister
The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's minister in charge of managing certain parts of the British Empire.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)