1. H. Danvers (1894) ‘An Account of the Origins of the East India Company’s Civil Service and of their college in Hertfordshire’, in Memorials of Old Haileybury College (Westminster) pp. 7, 11.
2. M. Mclaren (2001) British India and British Scotland, 1780–1830: Career-Building, Empire-building, and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance (Akron) p. 25. Though the classics were less dominant in Scottish education than English at the time, Elphinstone’s education was still classical. Ibid., pp. 33–4.
3. Letter from Mrs Thompson to Elphinstone’s Mother, quoted in R.D. Choksey (1971) Mountstuart Elphinstone: the Indian years, 1796–1827 (Bombay) p. 23.
4. T. E. Colebrooke (1884) Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone (London) vol. 1, p. 9.
5. J. Morduant Crook (1964) Haileybury and the Greek Revival: The Architecture of William Wilkins (Leicester) p. 9.