Background
He was the eldest son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a scholarship.
He was the eldest son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a scholarship.
Eton College; Trinity College.
In his thirties, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln"s Inn, later becoming a lecturer for the Law Society and then the Professor of Real Property Law to the Inns of Court.