ELLIS, GEORGE RAYNER
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George Rayner Ellis (1897-1953) was prominent as editor of one of Johannesburg’s most successful English-language dailies.
He was born in London and studied at the Latimer School and Cambridge. He served in World War I, and in the early 1920s joined the staff of the League of Nations. He then turned to journalism and for several years edited Outward Bound, a religious magazine, before emigrating to South Africa in 1926 where he took a position on the Rand Daily Mail.
He held the post of editor of the Rand Daily Mail from 1941, and in that capacity helped to make the paper the outspoken defender of liberal principles which it eventually became after the Afrikaner nationalist victory of 1948.
GAIL M. GERHART
