Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet

Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (26 July 1830^[1][2] – 3 January 1917) was an English barrister and legal academic.

Sir Howard Elphinstone Bt.
Born	(1830-07-26)26 July 1830 Westminster, London, England
Died	3 January 1917(1917-01-03) (aged 86) Wimbledon, London, England
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Lawyer, educator
Spouse	Constance Hankey ​ (m. 1860)​
Children	11, including Lancelot
Father	Howard Elphinstone
Relatives	Howard Elphinstone (grandfather) Charles O'Brien (son-in-law)

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).