Title: The Elphinstone family book of the lords Elphinstone, Balmerino and Coupar Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898. 1n Subjects: Elphinstone family Publisher: Edinburgh [Printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press] Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: , Lord Elphinstoue, who,by his own desire, was laid by his side. A public meeting of his friendsand admirers was held on the following February to consider the fittest mannerof showing their appreciation of his eminent and useful services. The list ofthose who were present at this meeting includes the honoured names of SirC. Wood, then secretary of state for India, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Ellen-borough, and Lord Derby; and the result of their conference was the erection ofa statue in his honour by Noble, which was afterwards placed in the cathedralof St. Pauls.2 Thus died one of the noblest and most illustrious of our Indian statesmen,who by the long and faithful devotion of his abilities to the furtherance of hiscountrys welfare in India, as well as by the unvarying kindness, generosity, andintegrity of his conduct, has made the name of Elphinstoue to shine so brilliantlyin the annals of our Indian empire. 1 Diary in Life of M. Elphinstone, vol. ii. pp. 365, 366. ^ ma. pp. 411, 412.

Text Appearing After Image: 320 XXI.—John, twelfth Lord Elphinstone. Janet Hyndford Elliot (of Wolflee), Dowager Lady Carmichael, his Wife. 1794-1813. Johu, twelfth Lord Elphinstone, was the eldest son of John, eleventh LordElphinstone, and the Honourable Anne Euthven, Lady Elphinstone, his wife.He was born probably about the year 1770. A few years after his birth,Mr. Johnston, the parish minister of Biggar, when speaking of him as theBailie of Biggars favourite, calls him in familiar parlance Young Jock ofBiggar. ^ The period in which this Lord Elphinstone lived, up till the time ofhis death in 1813, was one of great public commotion. The war on theAmerican continent, which began in 1775, continued till 1783. The powerfulconfederacy against Britain to which that war gave rise compelled the latterto fight single-handed the combined forces of America, France, Spain, andHolland. The principles which the French people learned from theAmericans made them ripe for the revolution of 1789, a revolution whichprovoked

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