Books by H. F. Ellis

Humphry Francis Ellis was born in 1907 in Lincolnshire, and educated at Tonbridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. Following a year as assistant master at Marlborough school he began to write for Punch, and over time became the magazine's co-editor. He was also a regular contributor to the New Yorker. His other books included The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book (1950), Mediatrics (1961), and two collections of pieces, Twenty-Five Years Hard (1960) and The Bee in the Kitchen (1983). He died in 2000.