financial commissioner from March 1889. He was re-appointed to the governor-general's legislative council in June 1892, and was made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in January 1893. Later life Elsmie left India on 4 February 1894. On 20 July 1904 he received from Aberdeen University the honorary degree of LL.D. He died at Torquay on 26 March 1909, and was buried at Deeside cemetery, Aberdeen. Works Elsmie prepared an Epitome of Correspondence regarding our Relations with Afghanistan and Herat, 1854-63 (Lahore, 1863). Suggestions to the government in Crime and Criminals on the Peshawur Frontier (Lahore, 1884) contributed to the Frontier Criminal Regulations (1887). With Peter Lumsden, Elsmie wrote Sir Harry Lumsden's biography, Lumsden of the Guides (1899). With material collected by Sir Henry Cunningham he wrote the authorised life of Field-marshal Sir Donald Stewart, and he edited letters of his mother as Anne Shepherd or Elsmie: a Character Sketch of a Scottish Lady of the Nineteenth Century as disclosed by her Letters (Aberdeen, 1904). Thirty-Five Years in the Punjab (Edinburgh, 1908) was dedicated to his university. Family Elsmie married at Southampton, on 27 October 1861, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Spears of Kirkcaldy, who survived him. Of a family of three sons and eight daughters, two sons became officers in the Indian army, four daughters married Indian civil servants, one of the husbands being Thomas Holderness, and two daughters married officers in the army. Notes Attribution 1838 births 1909 deaths 19th-century Scottish judges Administrators in British India Companions of the Order of the Star of India Scottish biographers People from Aberdeen Members of Lincoln's Inn Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Vice-Chancellors of the University of the Punjab British India judges