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 and had issue
- The Hon. Margaret Elphinstone (born 9 June 1925), married Denys Rhodes and had issue
Read more about this topic: Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone
Famous quotes containing the words marriage and, marriage and/or issue:
“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;
Put rancors in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)