Initially, these were built to match the ancient buildings ( e. g. the New Kings lecture rooms and Elphinstone Hall ), but later ones from the 1960s onward were constructed in brutalist style.

New King's groups to form a yet larger quadrangle-like green for the campus also bordered by the High Street, King's and Elphinstone Hall, a traditional 1930 replacement for the Great Hall.

Graduations currently take place at the Elphinstone Hall at King's College.

She graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay, and then went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

The Town Hall and part of Elphinstone Circle Gardens, c. 1905

Elphinstone Hall

The 1930 construction of the Elphinstone Hall effectively created a two-quadrangle arrangement, connected to the original King's buildings.

Elphinstone Hall is used for functions, dining, and examinations.

The proposal was accepted and admission started for the Arts faculty in June 1948, with a formal inauguration in September 1948 at the Elphinstone College Library Hall.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

The name is derived from the Daintree River which was named by George Elphinstone Dalrymple, an early explorer of the area, after his friend, Richard Daintree.

Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

He became a schoolmaster, at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 1856 went to India as Principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, a post which he held for seven years, which includes a period during the mutiny of 1857, when he was able to render services for which he was publicly thanked by Lord Elphinstone in the Bombay Council.

In many ways, Tilak and Gokhale ’ s early careers paralleled – both were Chitpavan Brahmin ( though unlike Gokhale, Tilak was wealthy ), both attended Elphinstone College, both became mathematics professors, and both were important members of the Deccan Education Society.

The first university in Aberdeen, King's College, was founded in February 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, Chancellor of Scotland, and a graduate of the University of Glasgow drafting a request on behalf of King James IV to Pope Alexander VI resulting in a Papal Bull being issued.

The first principal was Hector Boece, graduate and professor of the University of Paris, who worked closely with Elphinstone to develop the university.

The taking of garbal teind was a right given to George Elphinstone in 1616 as part of his 19-year tack ( lease ).

After the Protestant Reformation, in 1579 the church granted the land for ground rents ( feued the land ) to Sir George Elphinstone, a merchant who was Provost of Glasgow ( 1600 – 1606 ).

The barony and regality of the Gorbals was confirmed in 1606 by a charter of King James VI, which vested Elphinstone and his descendants.

In 1500, he was induced to leave Paris for Aberdeen by a generously financed offer to become the first principal of the newly established University of Aberdeen, created at the behest of James IV by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen under the authority of a Papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI.

Finally there was a group of sources that remain debated: material from Elphinstone, and the authors Veremundus, Cornelius Hibernicus, and John Campbell.

This was when Lord Keith was still Captain Elphinstone, therefore pre-1797.

On 23 December the British envoy, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was murdered at Kabul ; and in February 1842 the weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, General Elphinstone, sent orders that Kandahar was to be evacuated.

Nott at once decided to disobey, on the supposition that Elphinstone was not a free agent at Kabul ; and as soon as he heard the news of the Massacre of Elphinstone's army, he urged the government at Calcutta to maintain the garrison of Kandahar with a view to avenging the massacre and the murder of Macnaghten.

Burnes was murdered on 2 November 1841 ; and under the elderly General William Elphinstone, the British army in Kabul degenerated into a leaderless mob.

Mountstuart Elphinstone ( 6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859 ) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India.

Born in Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire ( now Dunbartonshire ) in 1779, and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, he was the fourth son of the 11th Baron Elphinstone in the peerage of Scotland.

In 1804, when the war ended, Elphinstone was appointed British resident at Nagpur.

After spending about a year in Calcutta arranging the report of his mission, Elphinstone was appointed in 1811 to the important and difficult post of resident at Pune ( formerly known as Poona ).

In 1819 Elphinstone was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay, a post he held until 1827.

An army of 21, 000 British and Indian troops under the command of Sir John Keane ( subsequently replaced by Sir Willoughby Cotton and then by William Elphinstone ) set out from Punjab in December 1838.

Inception classes were held at Elphinstone college and was subsequently to moved to the present fort campus.

Initially, the Elphinstone College building was used for Mumbai University.

The cross used to stand where the current Elphinstone School currently stands.

From Stoneywood it ran level to Port Elphinstone and was used to carry both freight and passenger boats.

* It was suggested that premises Elphinstone College be used ( during Morning Hours ) for initial Classes of Jaihind College.

Most used alternative names are Kamozi, Kamoz / Camoze, Caumojee / Kaumoji, and Camoje ( M. Elphinstone, George Roberston, Richard Strand ).

In 1495, William Elphinstone, the relatively newly appointed Bishop of Aberdeen, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of King James IV to create the facility to cure the ignorance he had witnessed within his parish and in the north generally.

Zaibunnisa Street in the Saddar area ( known as Elphinstone Street in British days ) is an example where the mercantile groups adopted the Italianate and Indo-Saracenic style to demonstrate their familiarity with Western culture and their own.

The coastline is extremely rugged, and the Elphinstone Inlet, sixteen kilometers long and surrounded by cliffs 1, 000 to 1, 250 meters high, has frequently been compared with fjords in Norway.

* February – King's College, Aberdeen, predecessor of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is founded on the petition of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen.

The Elphinstone transcription is in the British Library.

Her tale is told in the 2000 novel The Sea Road by Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone.

His connection with the Bombay Presidency is commemorated in the endowment of Elphinstone College by local communities, and in the erection of a marble statue by the European inhabitants.

South of the River Don is the village of Port Elphinstone, which is part of the Royal Burgh of Inverurie and is so called due to the proximity of the Aberdeenshire Canal ( Inverurie to Aberdeen ) ( now disused ).

It is referred to as " Bandora " on gravestones in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church and in the writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone of the British East India Company which describe endeavours to acquire the island of Salsette ..

Lord Elphinstone, of Elphinstone in the County of Stirling, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

He is Chief of Clan Elphinstone.

Lord Elphinstone is a third cousin of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

The Elphinstone Road railway station on the Western line of Mumbai Suburban Railway is also situated in this neighbourhood.

Elphinstone Road is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway in Mumbai, India.

Parallel to Elphinstone Road station is the Parel railway station which caters to the Central Line ( Mumbai Suburban Railway ).

Starting with Sir John Malcolm in 1828, a succession of them from Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone, Arthur Malet ( for whom the seat at " Point Arthur " is named ), Carnac, Frere and many others became regular visitors.

Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon ( Tommy Hambledon ) is the fictional protagonist of many spy novels written by the British author " Manning Coles " ( actually the two-person writing team of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles ) from 1940 through 1963.

Bishop Elphinstone, the College's founder, and Hector Boece, its first Principal, are buried at the foot of the chancel, although a larger tomb to Elphinstone is located outside the college.