Elphinstone

Mount stuart, an Indian administrator, son of the 11th Lord Elphinstone; born in Scotland, in 1778; was amba ador to the A:- ghan court in 1808; resident at the court of Poonah from 1810 to 1817; British commi ioner to that province in 1817-1819; and governor of Bombay in 1819-1827. <A native college was named after him. Died in 1859.