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(16th) Baron Elphinstone                   1869-1955 Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone. Lord Elphinstone was born on 27 July 1869, the son of William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Baron Elphinstone and Constance Euphemia Woronzow Murray, at the family seat of Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon      1883-1961 Lady Mary was born on 30 August 1883, the daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Nina Cecilie Cavendish-Bentinck. I have identified the following children.

Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

	Mary Elizabeth	Born 2 Jul 1911		London
	John Alexander	Born 22 Mar 1914		London
	Jean Constance	Born 3 Apr 1915		London	Married Major John Lycett Wills
	Andrew Charles Victor	Born 10 Nov 1918		London	Married Jean Frances Hambro,
	Margaret	Born 9 Jun 1925		London

Birth of Parents

Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone

b: 27 Jul 1869         Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland son of William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Baron Elphinstone and Constance Euphemia Woronzow Murray

Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

b: 30 August 1883         daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Nina Cecilie Cavendish-Bentinck

Marriage

14 Jul 1910 Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

London       1910 3Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 1139

Children

Mary Elizabeth Elphinstone

b: 2 Jul 1911               London       1911 3Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 721 daughter of Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone and Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

John Alexander Elphinstone

b: 22 Mar 1914               London       1914 2Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 746 son of Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone and Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

Jean Constance Elphinstone

b: 3 Apr 1915               London       1915 2Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 704 daughter of Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone and Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

Andrew Charles Elphinstone

b: 10 Nov 1918               London       1918 4Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 504 son of Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone and Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

Margaret Elphinstone

b: 9 Jun 1925               London       1925 3Q St. George Hanover Square 1a 570 daughter of Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone and Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon

Death

Sir Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone

Died 28 Nov 1955, Age 86,  at Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

The Times, Tuesday, Nov 29, 1955     OBITUARY

LORD ELPHINSTONE     Lord Elphinstone, K.T., Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers from 1935 to 1953 and an uncle of the Queen, died yesterday at his home, Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, at the age of 86.   The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, sixteenth Lord Elphinstone in the Peerage of Scotland and second Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, K. T., was born on July 27, 1869, at the family seat, Carberry Tower, Musselburgh.   He was the second son of the fifteenth Lord Elphinstone, by Constance Euphemia Woronzow, daughter of the sixth Earl of Dunmore.   Between the death of his elder brother in 1890 and January 18, 1893, when he suceedeed to the peerage, he was styled Master of Elphinstone.   He was educated at Marlborough.   Lord Elphinstone was appointed an ensign in the Royal Company  of Archers  (The  king's  bodyguard  for  Scotland),

Lieutenant in 1919 and Captain in 1923 and was also vice-president of the council to that body.   In 1923-24 he served as Lord High Commissioner to the assembly of the Church of Scotland.   He was formerly a director of the Bank of Scotland, of which he was appointed Governor in 1924.   He was also a Trustee and commissioner of the Board of Manufacturers for Scotland.   In 1930 he was appointed Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Midlothian.   Lord Elphinstone was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1927.   He married on July 14, 1910, Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon, second daughter of the fourteenth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, K. T., and an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.   There were two sons and two daughters of the marriage.   He is succeeded in the peerage by John Alexander, Master of Elphinstone, who was born on March 22, 1914, was educated at Eton, and was taken prisoner while serving with the Black Watch during the last war.

Death

Lady Mary Frances (Bowes-Lyon)

Died 8 Feb 1961, Age 77,  at Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

The Times, Thursday, Feb 9, 1961     OBITUARY

Lady Elphinstone, D.C.V.O., widow of the 16th Baron Elphinstone, K.T., died yesterday at Carberry Tower, Musselburgh, at the age of 77.   She was Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon, second daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.   She was married in 1910 and her husband died in 1955.

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