of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1830 with his proposer being Sir John Robison. He twice refused appointment as Governor-General of India, preferring to finish his two-volume work, History of India (1841). He died in Hookwood, Surrey, England, on 20 November 1859. He is buried in Limpsfield churchyard. There is also a memorial to him in St Paul's Cathedral. James Sutherland Cotton later wrote his biography as part of the Rulers of India series in 1892. The historian James Grant Duff named his son after Elphinstone. Published works See also Asiatic Society of Bombay Horniman Circle Gardens References Bibliography Further reading External links 1779 births 1859 deaths People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Scottish diplomats Governors of Bombay Scottish Indologists 19th-century Scottish people 19th-century British historians People from Dumbarton Scottish educational theorists