Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet explained

Sir Howard Elphinstone
Honorific Suffix:	Bt.
Birth Date:	26 July 1830
Birth Place:	Westminster, London, England
Death Place:	Wimbledon, London, England
Education:	Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation:	Lawyer, educator
Father:	Howard Elphinstone
Children:	11, including Lancelot
Relatives:	Howard Elphinstone (grandfather) Charles O'Brien (son-in-law)

Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (26 July 1830^[1] – 3 January 1917) was an English barrister and legal academic.

Biography

Born in Westminster, Elphinstone was the eldest son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet,^[1] and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a scholarship. In his thirties, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, later becoming a lecturer for the Law Society and then the Professor of Real Property Law to the Inns of Court. He died in Wimbledon Park.

Family

On 4 August 1860 he married Constance Mary Alexander Hankey, third daughter of John Alexander Hankey.^[1] They had six sons and five daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Howard Graham Elphinstone, the son of Graham Warburton Elphinstone, the 3rd baronet's second son:^{[1] [2]}

• Howard John Elphinstone (1862–1895); who married in 1889 Katherine Curteis, and had issue.
• Graham Warburton Elphinstone (1866–1903); who married in 1896 Susan Harley, daughter of H. C. R. Harley, og India, and had children including Howard Graham Elphinstone, who succeeded his grandfather.
• Douglas Bonar Elphinstone (1871–1892).
• Rev. Maurice Curteis Elphinstone (1874–1969).
• Kenneth Vaughan Elphinstone (1878–1963), a colonial official.
• Sir Lancelot Henry Elphinstone (1879–1965).
• Constance Julia Elphinstone (1864–1958); who married in 1889 Captain John Russell Compton Domvile (d. 1893), and had issue.
• Frances Mary Elphinstone (1865–1946); who married in 1891 Edward Alfred Chandler, and had issue.
• Isabel Harriet Elphinstone (1868–1942)
• Selina Beatrice Elphinstone (1875–1965); who married at the Anglican Cathedral in Bloemfontein on 26 December 1902 Charles O'Brien,^[3] who was later Governor of Seychelles and knighted as a KCMG.
• Gladys Christine Elphinstone (1884–1985).

References

• Obituary: p. 151, The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mosley, Charles . Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage . London . 2003 . 0-9711966-2-1 . 1315.
2. Debrett′s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1903
3. Marriages . 30 December 1902 . 1 . 36964.