Elwes (/ˈɛlwɪs/) is an English surname whose spelling over the years has included Helwish, Helewise, Helwys, Elwaiss, Elwaies and Elway.[citation needed] A notable family of the name were landed gentry, of Roxby in Lincolnshire; several of the individuals listed below were from this Elwes family, members of which invariably used the final middle name "Cary" (sometimes hyphenated to form a double-barrelled surname) following the 1717 marriage of Robert Elwes (1690-1752) and Martha, daughter of Richard Cary, of Bedford Row, London, a merchant and a governor of the Bank of England.[1]

People with the Elwes surname:

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  1. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965, p. 236