William Elphinstone (13 September 1740-3 May 1834)

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Parents
Father:1Charles Elphinstone (6 August 1711-6 April 1781), 10. Lord Elphinstone
Mother:2Clementina Fleming (around 1719-1 January 1799)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:324 June 1774Elizabeth Fullerton (1757 or 1758-27 May 1840)
Children
Children with Elizabeth Fullerton:
Clementina Elphinstone (-19 November 1830)4
Anne Elphinstone (-29 August 1850)5
William George Keith Elphinstone (1782-), major-general6
Elizabeth Elphinstone (1783-28 October 1802)7
John Fullerton Elphinstone (around 1784-12 March 1854)8
Charles Elphinstone (1784-February 1807)9
James Drummond Buller Fullerton Elphinstone (4 May 1788-8 March 1857), lieutenant-colonel10
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Events
Born:1113 September 1740
Died:123 May 1834
Personal Info
He became a sailor at the age of fifteen, and in 1757 entered the service of the East India Company. In 1785 he obtained the command of a ship, and got £2000 from his granduncle the Earl Marischal to help him in trade. This he made the foundation of a handsome fortune. By his rare ability and energy he rapidly rose in the service, and about 1786 was elected a director of the company. On three separate occasions, 1804, 1806, and 1814, he occupied the position of chairman. He resigned his directorship in 1826 when he was eighty-five.13
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Elphinstone, p. 545-49, X Charles Elphinstone.
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