Peter Ellis (architect)

Peter Ellis (1805–1884) was a British architect from Liverpool and inventor of the paternoster lift. He is best known for designing Oriel Chambers, built in 1864, which is the world's first building to feature a metal-framed glass curtain wall. For this achievement he appears in the Guinness Book of Records.

From the mid-1840s he lived at 40 Falkner Square, a house which he designed and on which an English Heritage Blue Plaque is now sited.

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