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| fullname         = Diana Margaret Ellis
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1938|4|11|df=y}}
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| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2017|5|18|1938|4|11|df=y}}
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| nationality      = [[Great Britain|British]]
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'''Dame Diana Margaret Ellis''' {{postnominals|size=100%|DBE}} (11 April 1938 – 18 May 2017), known as '''Di Ellis''', was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Rowing (sport)|rower]] and the former Honorary President of [[British Rowing]].
==Rowing career==
Ellis [[coxswain (rowing)|coxed]] the women's eight at the [[1966 European Rowing Championships]] for Great Britain. She coxed the England women's four to gold in the 1972 home countries match, and won the women's eight head of the river race seven times, four as a [[coxswain|cox]] and three as a rower, from 1966-1973. She won the coxed fours with Janis Long, Ann Shackell, Margaret Goodsman and [[Beryl Crockford|Beryl Martin]], rowing for the St George's Ladies crew, at the inaugural [[1972 British Rowing Championships|1972 National Rowing Championships]], on the new 2,000-metre course at Holme Pierrepont.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS102070006/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=1d4b1833|title="Rowing." Times, 22 July 1972, p. 6|newspaper=The Times|date=22 July 1972 |page=6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1972-2/|title=THE FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONS|website=Rowing Story|date=22 March 2017 }}</ref><ref name="guardianobit">{{cite news|last1=Dodd|first1=Christopher|title=Dame Di Ellis obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/07/dame-di-ellis-obituary|accessdate=8 June 2017|agency=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="henleystandardobit">{{cite news|title=Dame Di Ellis, former British Rowing chairman, 1938-2017|url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/110327/dame-di-ellis-former-british-rowing-chairman-1938-2017.html|accessdate=8 June 2017|agency=Henley Standard}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Longmore|first1=Andrew|title=British rowing will miss its influential dame|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-rowing-mourns-death-of-dame-di-ellis-xz902wkm3|accessdate=8 June 2017|agency=The Times}}</ref>
==Family==
She was the middle child of three daughters born to Robert Hall, a proof reader, and his wife, Mabel (née Steadman), a nurse. She attended [[Ealing]] girls' school (West London), and the [[Guildford|Guildford College of Technology]] (in Surrey).<ref name="guardianobit"/>
==Honours==
Ellis was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for services to rowing in 2004, and elevated to Dame Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the Queen's [[2013 Birthday Honours|Birthday Honours List of 2013]]. She was made a vice-president of the British Olympic Association in 2013 and honorary president of British Rowing in 2014.<ref name="henleystandardobit"/><ref>[http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/news/14-06-2013/alliance-leading-light-earns-damehood "Alliance leading light earns Damehood"], sportandrecreation.org.uk, 14 June 2013; accessed 19 June 2017.</ref>
==Death==
Ellis died following a brief illness at the age of 79.<ref name="henleystandardobit"/> She was survived by her husband (since 1966) and daughter.<ref name="guardianobit"/>
==Affiliations==
* British Olympic Association
* Sport & Recreation Alliance
* British Confederation of Sport
* Skills Active
* Sporting Equals and Sports Resolutions
==References==
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[[Category:1938 births]]
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[[Category:British female rowers]]
[[Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Sportspeople awarded damehoods]]
[[Category:Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing]]
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