Arthur Ellis

Sir Arthur William Mickle Ellis, OBE, DM, FRCP, LLD (4 May 1883 – 20 May 1966) was a prominent British-Canadian physician, pathologist, and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1943-1948). Early life Ellis was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 4 May 1883, the son of Dr. William H. Ellis, Professor of Applied Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering in the University of Toronto and his wife Ellen Maude Mickle. Early medical career He was educated at Upper Canada College, and the University of Toronto, graduating BA MD in 1908. Ellis's initial academic interest was in laboratory work and after an apprenticeship in the Sociological Laboratories in Toronto, he became demonstrator in pathology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.