Editing Doug Ellis (section)

{{Short description|English businessman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[Sir]]
| name                = Doug Ellis
| honorific_suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| image               = Doug Ellis, 2014 (cropped).jpg
| image_size          = 
| caption             = Doug Ellis, in 2014
| order               = 
| office              = Chairman of [[Aston Villa F.C.]]
| term_start1         = 1982
| term_end1           = 2006
| predecessor1        = [[Ron Bendall]]
| successor1          = [[Randy Lerner]]
| term_start2         = 1968
| term_end2           = 1975
| predecessor2        = [[Norman Smith (executive)|Norman Smith]]
| successor2          = [[Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Dugdale, Bt]]
| birth_name          = Herbert Douglas Ellis
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1924|1|3|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Hooton, Cheshire|Hooton]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2018|10|11|1924|1|3|df=y}}
| death_place         = 
| occupation          = President Emeritus (Life President) of Aston Villa
| spouse              = {{marriage|Audrey Slater|1946||end=divorced}}<ref name=express>{{cite news |title=Sir Doug Ellis: A man who split opinion but forever had Aston Villa in his heart |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2018/10/11/sir-doug-ellis-a-man-who-split-opinion-but-forever-had-aston-villa-in-his-heart/ |access-date=11 October 2018 |work=Express & Star |date=11 October 2018}}</ref><br> {{marriage|Heidi Marie Kroeger|1963}}<ref name=express/>
| children            = 3<ref name=express/>
}}

'''Sir Herbert Douglas Ellis''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (3 January 1924 – 11 October 2018)<ref name=glanville>{{cite news |last1=Glanville |first1=Brian |title=Sir Doug Ellis obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/11/sir-doug-ellis-obituary |access-date=11 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=11 October 2018}}</ref> was an English [[entrepreneur]]. He was the chairman of [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa Football Club]] from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1982 until 2006. Ellis was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2012 New Year Honours]] List for charitable services.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60009 |date=31 December 2011 |page=1 |supp=y }}</ref>