Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet

Sir Howard Elphinstone
Bt.
Born(1830-07-26)26 July 1830
Westminster, London, England
Died3 January 1917(1917-01-03) (aged 86)
Wimbledon, London, England
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Lawyer, educator
Spouse
Constance Hankey
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(m. 1860)​
Children11, including Lancelot
FatherHoward Elphinstone
RelativesHoward Elphinstone (grandfather)
Charles O'Brien (son-in-law)

Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (26 July 1830[1][2] – 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.[2] 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][3]

  • 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,[4] who was later Governor of Seychelles and knighted as a KCMG.
  • Gladys Christine Elphinstone (1884–1985).

References

  1. ^ a b c d Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 1315. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ a b "Elphinstone, Howard Warburton (ELFN850HW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Debrett′s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1903
  4. ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36964. London. 30 December 1902. p. 1.
  • 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.
  • Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Sowerby)
1893–1917 		Succeeded by