Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet
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– 3 January 1917, Wimbledon Park
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) was an English
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and legal academic.
He was the eldest son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet
Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet
Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet was a British Whig politicianHe was elected as Member of Parliament for Hastings at the 1835 general election, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1832. He did not stand for re-election in Hastings at the 1837 general election, but stood instead in...
, and educated at Eton
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and Trinity College, Cambridge
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, where he took a scholarship. In his thirties, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn
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, later becoming a lecturer for the Law Society
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and then the Professor of Real Property Law to the Inns of Court
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On 4 August 1860 he married Constance Mary Alexander Hankey, third daughter of John Alexander Hankey. They had seven sons and five daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Howard Graham Elphinstone, the son of Graham Warburton Elphinstone, the 3rd baronet's second son.