Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (26 July 1830
– 3 January 1917) was an
English barrister and legal academic.
Biography
Born in
Westminster
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, Elphinstone was the eldest son of
Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet,
[ and educated at Eton and ]Trinity College, Cambridge
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, where he took a scholarship.called to the Bar
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at Lincoln's Inn
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, later becoming a lecturer for the Law Society and then the Professor of Real Property Law to the Inns of Court
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. He died in Wimbledon Park
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.
Family
On 4 August 1860 he married Constance Mary Alexander Hankey, third daughter of John Alexander Hankey.[ 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:][
*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
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on 26 December 1902 Charles O'Brien,
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.
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External links
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1830 births
1917 deaths
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People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Presidents of the Cambridge Union
English barristers