Son of the eleventh baron (d. 1794); he served as colonel in the 26th Foot, was a Scottish representative peer, and was Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.

REFERENCES TO John Elphinstone, twelfth lord Elphinstone:

Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 13 August 1811 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)