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OSBORNE-ELPHINSTONE, LORD WILLIAM GODOLPHIN, brother of George Godolphin Osborne, 8th Duke of Leeds (qv); b. 29 Mar 1804; adm. 14 Jun 1814; left 17 Jul 1817; Ensign, 26th Foot 11 Sep 1835; Lieut., 4 Aug 1837; retd. 1842; Military Secretary and ADC to his cousin Lord Auckland, Governor-Gen. of India, 1836-41; served in China expedition 1839-41; assumed additional surname of Elphinstone; obtained patent of precedency 28 Jun 1859; a great proficient of hop-scotch, as played under the rules at the School in his day (Emily Eden, Up the Country, 1866, ii, 214); m. 1st, 1832 E. Smith; m. 2nd, 7 Jun 1843 Hon. Caroline Montagu, sixth dau. of Matthew, 4th Baron Rokeby (I); m. 3rd, 10 May 1870 Hon. Georgina Auguste Henrietta Elphinstone, widow of Hon. Augustus John Villiers, and dau. of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB, Admiral, Royal Navy; d. 28 Dec 1888.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.