Mount stuart elphinstone biography of abraham

​ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (1779–1859), governor of Bombay, fourth son of John, eleventh Baron Elphinstone, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Lord Ruthven, was born Oct.

1779, and passed his early years at Cumbernauld in Dumbartonshire.

Abraham Thacker, one of convicts transported on the Mount Stuart Elphinstone [Mount Stewart Elphinstone], 01 June Index.

He married Ann Elizabeth Tisdell on 23/1/ 4 children were born in England and then 2 were born here when Ann arrived in Australia.

Mountstuart Elphinstone was a British official in India who did much to promote popular education and local administration of laws.

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"Appointed through family influence to the East India Company, Mountstuart Elphinstone () arrived on the subcontinent in , quickly learning.

His father, a general officer, being appointed governor of Edinburgh Castle, Elphinstone spent some of his boyhood there, and attended the high school of the town in 1791-2, after which he was removed to a school at Kensington kept by a Dr.

Thompson. Elphinstone obtained an appointment in the Bengal civil service by the interest of an uncle, who was a member of the court of directors, and landed at Calcutta 26 Feb. 1796. He was at that time a clever but not particularly studious youth, full of energy and high spirits, fond of desultory reading, and much disposed to sympathise with the principles of the French revolution.

His earliest predilections had been for a military car