Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (26 July 1830[1][2] Westminster – 3 January 1917, Wimbledon Park) was an English baronet and legal academic.
He 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.
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 (b.1862); who married in 1889 Katherine Curteis, and had issue.
- Graham Warburton Elphinstone (b. 1866); 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.
- Rev. Maurice Curteis Elphinstone (b. 1874).
- Kenneth Vaughan Elphinstone (b. 1878), a colonial official.
- Sir Lancelot Henry Elphinstone (1879–1965).
- Constance Julia Elphinstone; who married in 1889 Captain John Russell Compton Domvile (d. 1893), and had issue.
- Frances Mary Elphinstone ; who married in 1891 Edward Alfred Chandler, and had issue.
- Isabel Harriet Elphinstone
- Selina Beatrice Elphinstone; 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
References
- 1 2 3 4 Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 1315. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- 1 2 "Elphinstone, Howard Warburton (ELFN850HW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Debrett′s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1903
- ↑ "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