Mountstuart Elphinstone

(1779-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859 NRA: Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1779-1859), Governor of Bombay, historian of India DNB: Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1779-1859), administrator in India LBT ID: MoElphi1859 VIAF ID: 51698000 LOC ID: n50078872	B/BAP: 1779-10-06 DIED: 1859-11-20
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After education in the Edinburgh High School he was in the Bengal civil service (1796); he was ambassador at Kabul (1808) and governor of Bombay (1819-27).
REFERENCES TO Mountstuart Elphinstone: Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 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) Found 3: ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ n2-n3 John Murray to Walter Scott, 8 November 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 8 October 1841 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 16: A. Conway Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 7 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1841 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 75 Chap. XXXIV. Found 1: ¶ 41 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n2-n3 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) JAMES MATHIAS Found 1: ¶ 19 WILLIAM GODWIN Found 1: ¶ 15 MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 8 MR. DAVIS Found 5: ¶ 14 ¶ 17 ¶ 20 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 VISCOUNT HARDINGE Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 17 BEAU BRUMMELL Found 1: ¶ 3 THE BRUNELS Found 1: ¶ 23