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embody wbat the poet has so finely, if quaintly, 
pictured of 
That sw»et attractive kind of grace; 
A full assurance given in looks, 
Continual comfort of a face 
The lineament of gospel-booka ; 
For sure that countenance cannot lie, 
Whose mind is written in the eye. 
She must have appeared in some sort thug to all 
who were privileged to know her. Those who knew 
her more intimately found in Lady Elphinstone a 
humble, earnest Christian, exhibiting a lite remark- 
able for its consistency — marked by unostentatious 
benevolence and kiudness — with a liberality as con- 
siderate as it was untiring ; and the warmth of her 
heart, her afiection and friendship towards persons 
of all classes, eudui'ed veith her life. Single-minded- 
nesB ; utter scorn of meanness ; an almost fiery in- 
dignation at the sight of wrong or injustice — withal 
a grand simplicity, a noble pureness of nature that 
was manifested even in her outward appearance, in- 
spired those who came under her influence with an 
affection and reverence not easy to describe. With 
her everything was in earnest ; all around her folt 
it. Her rule of life was 'Duty." She might, herself, 
have written the pregnant words, " But my guiding- 
star was, and will be, ' Duty," and pleasure and de- 
sire of the heart must wait, even for ever, if necessary, 
when Duty calls." 
Her personal appearance was very striking. To 
the refined beauty of countenance and expression 
(which marked her even in old age), and the sweet 
graceful digtity of figure and bearing which distin- 
guished her in youth, were added, as years increased, 
a certain stateliness of demeanour, which, tempered 
as it was by warm-hearted kindness, impressed them- 
selves on all who approached her. Her mental and 
personal qualities combined, in truth, to form a 
personage of no ordiuary stamp. She was, all in 
all, one the like of whom we but rarely meet with 
in the pilgrimage of life. In some of her character- 
istics, indeed, she belonged to a class of which few 
representatives remain ; such as are embalmed in 
the pages of the "Lives of the Lindsays," — the 
highest form ol Scottish character: bright examples 
of what a Scottish training could be in our fathers' 
days. 
Grseme Hepburn, who became "Our Lady Dal- 
rymple Horn Elphinstone," was born on the 10th of 
May, 1782. Her father, Colonel David Hepburn, was 
descended in the inale line from the ancient family of 
Oongalton of Congalton, or "of that Ilk," in East 
Lothian, which held considerable possessions in that 
country as early as the 13th century. (See Chal- 
mers's "Caledonia," and Douglass's "Baronage of 
Scotland.") In the reign of Charles II., William 
Congalton of that Ilk, through his mamage with the 
niece and eventual heirass of Sir Robert Hepburn 
of Keith-Marischal, assumed the name of that family, 
a branch of the Hepturns of Hailes, ancestors of 
the Earls Both well (Douglas's " Peerage of Scotland.") 
His son, Robert Congalton Hepburn, succeeded him, 
who, with his three sons, joined the insurrection of 
1715. rSome interesting facts connected with the 
family during that "affair" are given by Sir Walter 
Scott in " The Tales of a Grandfather," 3rd series). 
Robert Hepburn's youngest son, James, eventually 
Bucoeeded him. He went ''out" a second time in 
1745, being the first gentleman who tendered his 
allegiance to Prince Charles Edward at Holyrood. 
James Hepburn was a man of most amiable qualities 
and varied powers and accomplishments. He is de- 
Boribed by John Home in his "History of the Rebel- 
lion" as a model of ancient manliness, simplicity, 
and honour, who sacrificed himself to a visionary 
idea of the independence of his country. Dr. Carlyle, 
in his Memoirs, also highly eulogises his character. 
Mr. Hepburn married Katherine Rickart, heiress of 
Eickartoun, in Kincardineshire, and assumed her 
Burname additionftUy. By her, besides one daughter, 
Katherine, wife of General Graeme of IJraco (private 
Secretary to Queen Charlotte, and Equerry to King 
George III.) by whom she had an only child, 
Katherine, Vioountess Hampden, he left two sons : 
1st, Colonel Robert Rickart-Hepburn, long M.P. for 
Kincardineshire, father of Colonel William R. Hep- 
burn, of RickartouD, whose son, William K. Hep- 
barn, now possesses the estate; and, 2nd, Colonel 
David Hepburn, who married Bethia Graham, de- 
scended of the famil}- Inchbraikie, a branch of the 
House of Montrose, and left, besides oue surviving 
daughter, Greeine, the subject of this memoir, two 
sons; James, who married Louise, daughter of the 
Count de la Martilliere (both deceased without sur- 
viving issue) ; and Francis, Oolouel, 3rd Foot Guards, 
Major-General and C.B., a distinguished Peninsular 
and Waterloo officer, who, by his wife Henrietta, 
eldest daughter and co heiress of Sir Henry Poole, 
Bart, of Poole Hall, Cheshire, and The Hooke, Sussex, 
left issue, Colonel Henry Pool Hepburn, C.B,, now 
commanding the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards, 
Francis Robert, Rector of Chailey, Sussex, and one 
daughter, Charlotte Frances Aune Hepburn. 
Miss Graeme Hepburn married in 1800, at the age 
of 18, Roiiert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstoae of Horn 
and Logie-Elphinstone, Lieut.-Colonel 3rd Foot 
Guards, son of General Robert Dalrymple Horn of 
Horn and Westhall, by his wife Mary, daughter and 
heiress of Sir James' Elphinstone, Bart, of Logie- 
Elphinstone ; and who had lately succeeded to the 
family estates by the death of his elder brother 
without issue. By him, who was created a Baronet 
in 1828, in consideration of his being, through his 
mother, the representative of the Elphinstone family 
and who died in 1848, aged 82, she had issue fifteen 
children, ten sons and five daughters, of whom eight 
remain, the eldest surviving son being Sir Jaines 
Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, Bart, of Logie Elphin- 
stone, M.P. 
Although instances of more advanced age not nn- 
frequently occur, this venerable lady formed an in- 
teresting link with a byegone time. Belonging to 
a family that cherished the traditions of still earlier 
days, she passed much of her youth in Edinburgh 
and, besides the information she had inherited froru 
a former generation, her own recollections of Scottish 
society, seventy years ago, were very picturesque 
and striking. She spoke from personal knowledge 
of many whose names have now passed into the re- 
gions of history ; men who had fought at Preslonpans 
and CuUoden ; ladies who danced at the balls at 
Holyrood during Charles Stuart's six weeks' reign; 
veterans who had served at Fontenoy and Dettingen 
and Minden ; men of letters, of whom Scotland could 
then boast a brilliant circle ; of the emigrant French 
noblesse, who clustered round their exiled Princes, 
then resident, at Hoolyrood. Of all these, and of 
the leaders of Scottish society at the close of the 
last century, her anecdotes were full of character 
and interest, even in the latest years of her life, 
which were mercifully and blessedly free from any 
clouding of the spirit or mind. 
But, though she cheerfully drew from her memory 
reminiscences like the above, it was not in such 
things that her heart rested. She was continually 
looking above and beyond this world, which she felt t' 
was not her abiding place. She lived from day to ( 
day, awaiting the summers of her Lord, and shedding ! ' 
to the last a grace on those around her. She has I 
left a bright example and a blessed msmory, never 
to be fo) gotten by those who knew her. 
Another very notable member rf the family was 
General John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, 
C.B., a brother of Sir James Elphinstone, and who 
greatly distinguishetl himself in the Ciiraea as 
Lieut.-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, We 
now come to the gorferations and personalities 
