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Mark Ellidge

British photographer (1940–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6767502 ↗
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Mark Ellidge (1940 – 9 January 2010) was a British press photographer.

Ellidge worked as a photographer for The Sunday Times for nearly 40 years, starting 1 June 1971. He specialised in the performing arts, but also did portrait photography of individuals in the news.

He married three times. Ellidge was half-brother to musician Robert Wyatt and played some piano on his 1970 solo album The End of an Ear.

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The public source identifies “Mark Ellidge” as british photographer (1940–2010). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mark, Ellidge and British.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2010, 1971, 1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mark, Ellidge and British providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Ellidge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.