costumes and cloth brought back by Ellis were presented to the museum. Four years later, in 1869, Queen Ranavalona II and the royal court of Madagascar converted to Christianity. Ellis's books about his experiences and the history and geography of the island were Madagascar Revisited (1867) and Martyr Church of Madagascar (1870). Death Ellis caught cold while on a train journey and died on 9 June 1872. Sarah Ellis died seven days later on 16 June. They had been married for 35 years. Ellis is buried in a venerated spot in the Congregationalists' non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery in London, near where Isaac Watts once lived. His intricately carved hip tomb is aligned with its chapel. His second wife preferred to be buried near their country home. A biography written by his son John Ellis and Henry Allon was published soon after his death. Legacy Ellis donated to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum specimens he had collected, including two idols, a flint adze, part of a gown of the Queen of the Sandwich Islands and other fabrics. A number of original collodion glass negatives from the William Ellis collection of the Wisbech & Fenland Museum were used in the exhibitions. William Ellis: Photography in Madagascar 1853-1865 was exhibited at the Fine Art Society, London, 3-30 July 1995 followed by Queen's Place, Antananarivo, Madagascar from September, 1995. Other images are included in the Getty collection. Works Notes External links 1794 births 1872 deaths English memoirists English travel writers English non-fiction outdoors writers English Congregationalist missionaries Congregationalist missionaries in Hawaii Congregationalist missionaries in French Polynesia Congregationalist missionaries in Madagascar Burials at Abney Park Cemetery Alumni of Homerton College, Cambridge British expatriates in French Polynesia British expatriates in Madagascar People from Wisbech