Alexander
Elmore
Born in Bengal, India
Ancestors 
Son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
John Elmore, Frederick William Elmore, William Archibald Edmonstone [half], Charlotte Ann (Edmonstone) Hodgson [half], Henrietta Dashwood Edmonstone [half], Susanna (Edmonstone) Lumsden [half], Neil Benjamin Edmonstone [half], Charles Welland Edmonstone [half], George Frederick Edmonstone KCB [half], Louisa Macleod (Edmonstone) Browne [half], Ann Craigie Edmonstone [half], James Harenc Edmonstone [half] and Alicia Augusta Edmonstone [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Alexander was born in 1798. He was the illegitimate son of Neil Edmonstone and an Indian woman. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that his mother was an Indian woman whose name is not known.[1] He was given the last name Elmore.[2]
In 1802 he was sent to Scotland, where he was brought up by a friend's sister. He engaged in a career as a merchant in Glasgow.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 'Edmonstone, Neil Benjamin', 2004, revised online 2005, available online via some libraries
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marla Karen Chancey. In the Company's Secret Service: Neil Benjamin Edmonstone and the First Indian Imperialists, 1780-1820, dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Florida State University, 2003, pp. 27-28, Florida State University website (PDF)
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