HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



he had entered the army, and by the year 

 1794 had risen to the rank of heutenant- colonel 

 of the Sixtieth Regiment of Foot. Soon after- 

 wards he was transferred to the battalion of 

 the Royal Americans in Canada, and when there, 

 through the death of his father, the eleventh Lord, 

 on the 19th of August 1794, he succeeded to the 

 title. In 1795 he had returned to England and 

 received the appointment of aide - de - camp to 

 H.R.H. Frederick, Duke of York, then Com- 

 mander-in-chief of the army; while in June 1801 

 he appears to have sailed for Egypt. The promo- 

 tion in the army which he had hitherto received 

 had been rapid, and his subsequent advancement 

 was striking. He exchanged from the Royal 

 Americans to the Sixty-First Regiment, and from 

 that Regiment to the Twenty-Sixth Cameronians, 

 prior to his being appointed a major-general on 

 the 2nd of November 1805. In May 1806 he 

 became colonel of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, and 

 in the December of the same year, in the midst 

 of his military preferments, he was elected a 

 representative peer. About that time he was 

 given the second command in Scotland, and on 

 the 30th of December 1811 he was appointed 

 by the Prince - Regent to take rank by brevet 

 as lieutenant-general in the army. In addition 

 to his other appointments. Lord Elphinstone was 

 lord-lieutenant for the county of Dumbarton.^ 



1 'The Elphinstone Family Book,' by Sir William Eraser, K.C.B., 

 vol. i. p. 320 et seq. 



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