John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone
John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone, 1st Baron Elphinstone, Bombay.[2]
Life
The only son of
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1836, in which year he was sworn of the privy council.[3]
In 1837, he left the Guards on being appointed governor of Madras by
Nilgiri Hills. On resigning his governorship in 1842 he travelled for some years, and explored Kashmir.[3]
He returned to England in 1845, and in 1847 was appointed by
Sholapur. He discovered a conspiracy in Bombay itself, and he seized the ringleaders. and prevented the conspiracy from coming to anything. He sent many of his troops elsewhere.[3]
He was made a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1858, and on 21 May 1859, on his return to England, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone, Stirlingshire. He died unmarried in King Street, St. James's, London, on 19 July 1860, when his peerage of the United Kingdom became extinct.[3]
References
- ^ "Scottish Representative Peers". Archived from the original on 11 August 2005. Retrieved 20 May 2005.
- ^ "John, Lord Elphinstone: Mumbai/Bombay pages". Theory.tifr.res.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephens, Henry Morse (1889). "Elphinstone, John (1807–1860)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 325.
- ISBN 978-1-76011-075-8
Further reading
- Gautam Chandra, Veerendra Kumar Mishra & Pranjali. (2018) From inactivity to encouragement: the contribution of Lord Elphinstone to the educational development of the Madras Presidency (1837–1842), History of Education, 47:6, 763–778, DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2018.1484181
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