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HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 



FAMILY HISTORY OF GEORGE KEITH ELPHINSTONE, VISCOUNT KEITH. 



II (M M F), William Keith, ninth Earl Marischal of Scotland. 



Fraternity of M M: II 1, George Keith, tenth Earl Marischal (1693-1778), served under 

 Marlborough and was a zealous Jacobite, taking part in the uprising of 1715, after which he 

 escaped to the Continent. He lived for many years in Spain; then in 1745 he went to Prussia, 

 where he held various diplomatic posts. II 2, Francis Edward James Keith (1696-1758), received 

 a careful education under a relative, Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife, during which he "acquired 

 that taste for literature which afterwards secured him the esteem of the most distinguished savants 

 of Europe"; a field marshal in Russia. II 3 (M M), Lady Mary Keith (died 1799). II 4 (M F), 

 John Fleming, sixth Earl Wigtoun. II 5 (F F), Charles Elphinstone, ninth Lord Elphinstone. 

 II 6 (F M), Elizabeth Primrose. 



III 1, James, third Lord j 

 Ruthven. Ill 2, Anne Stuart. Ill 



3 (M), Clementine Fleming, a 

 woman of great beauty and en- IE 

 ergy. Ill 4, Charles Elphinstone, 

 tenth Lord Elphinstone. Fraternity 

 of F: III 5, James and John Elphin- 

 stone. Ill 6, Archibald Elphin- 

 Btone, an officer in the army. Ill 

 7, Grizel and Primrose Elphin- 

 stone. 



IV 1, Cornelius Elliot. IV 3, 

 John Ruthven (died 1771), a cap- v 

 tain of the Royal Navy. IV 4, Anne 

 Ruthven. Fraternity of Propositus: 



IV 5, John Elphinstone, eleventh VI 

 Lord Elphinstone (1737-1794). IV 



6, Charles Elphinstone, of the Royal Navy. IV 7, William Fullerton-Elphinstone, an East 

 India director and previously commander of an Indianman. IV 8, Elizabeth Fullerton. IV 

 9, Mary, Eleanor, Primrose, and Clementina Elphinstone. IV 11, Sir Edward Duller, an admiral 

 of the Royal Navy. IV 13 (first consort), James Mercer (died 1789). IV 14 (Propositus), 

 GEORGE KEITH ELPHINSTONE, Viscount Keith. IV 14 (second consort), Hester Maria Thrale. 



V 1, Janet (Elliot) Hyndford. V 2, John Elphinstone, twelfth Lord Elphinstone (died 1813), 

 a lieutenant general in the army. V 3, Charles Elphinstone Fleming (born 1774), an admiral 

 in the navy and governor of Greenwich Hospital. V 4, Donna Catalina Alessandro, a Spanish 

 lady. V 5, James Elphinstone (died 1828) of Bengal, India. V 6, Mountstuart Elphinstone 

 (1779-1859), a commissioner in India and governor of Bombay; one of the most able and dis- 

 tinguished men of his time in India. V 7, Anne, Clementina, Elizabeth, and Keith Elphinstone. 



V 8, John Elphinstone (died 1854), lived in India. V 9, Charles Elphinstone (born 1784) was 

 in the Royal Navy and lost on the Blenheim. V 10, William George Keith Elphinstone, a major 

 general in the army; died in command in India, 1842. V 11, James Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone 

 (1788-1857), a lieutenant colonel of the army. V 12, Anna Maria Buller. Children of Propositus: 



V 14, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness Keith. V 15, Georgiana A. H. Elphinstone. 



VI 1, John Elphinstone, thirteenth Lord Elphinstone (1807-1860), a captain in the army; 

 governor of Madras and later of Bombay; created Baron Elphinstone in 1859. VI 2, John 

 Elphinstone Fleming, fourteenth Lord Elphinstone (1819-1861), lieutenant colonel in the army. 



VI 4, William Buller Fullerton, fifteenth Lord Elphinstone (1828-1893), a captain in the Royal 

 Navy. VI 5, Edward Charles Buller Fullerton (born 1832), a captain in the army. V 16, 

 John Frederick Buller Fullerton (1837-1874), a lieutenant colonel in the army. VI 7, George 

 James Buller Fullerton (1841-1879). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



ALLARDYCE, A. 1882. Memoir of the Hon. George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith, Ad- 

 miral of the Red. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons. 



BURKE, Sir B., and A. 1909. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and 

 Baronetage. London: Harrison and Son. 2570 pp. 



