Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone

Mary Frances Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone and Baroness Elphinstone DCVO (born Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon; 30 August 1883 – 8 February 1961) was a maternal aunt and godparent of Elizabeth II.

Biography

Lady Elphinstone was born The Lady Mary Frances Bowes-Lyon on 30 August 1883 in Angus, Scotland, to Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. She was an elder sister of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later The Queen Mother). She died on 8 February 1961 in Inveresk, Scotland.

Marriage and issue

Lady Mary married Sidney Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone (27 July 1869 – 28 November 1955) on 24 July 1910 in Westminster. The couple had five children:

• The Hon. Mary Elizabeth Elphinstone (1 July 1911 – 16 May 1980)
• The Hon. John Alexander Elphinstone, later 17th Lord Elphinstone (22 March 1914 – 15 November 1975)
• The Hon. Jean Constance Elphinstone (3 April 1915 – 29 November 1999), married Captain John Wills and had issue

• The Revd and Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone (10 November 1918 – 19 March 1975), married 1946 Jean Hambro ^[1] and had issue
• The Hon. Margaret Elphinstone (born 9 June 1925), married Denys Rhodes and had issue

Ancestry

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