1765 - 1841 (~ 75 years)
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| Name |
Neil Benjamin Edmonstone |
| Birth |
6 Dec 1765 |
London, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Burial |
4 May 1841 |
London, England |
| Person ID |
I193712 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
25 Jan 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Neil was born in 1765. He was baptised at St Marlebone, London on 12 January 1766, with his parents named as Archibald and Susanna Mary. His entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth date as 6 December 1765.
He worked for the East India Company, joining in 1783. After a period as Persian translator, he was appointed private secretary to Richard Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, the governor-general, in 1798. He was involved in the campaign against Tipu Sultan in 1799. In 1801 he was made Secretary to the secret and political department of the Government of India, with special responsibility for relations with the princely states. In 1807 when Lord Minto became governor-general Neil Edmonstone served as his private secretary. In October 1809 he was made Chief Secretary to the government of India, and in 1812 became a member of the Supreme Council at Calcutta. He retired after five years and shortly after his return to England became a Member of the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
By the middle of the 1790s Neil Edmonstone was in a relationship with an Indian woman whose name is unknown. They had four children, all given the last name Elmore (note that the ODNB has some birth dates wrong
- (Research):Father of John Elmore, Alexander Elmore, Frederick William Elmore, William Archibald Edmonstone, Charlotte Ann (Edmonstone) Hodgson, Henrietta Dashwood Edmonstone, Susanna (Edmonstone) Lumsden, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Charles Welland Edmonstone, George Frederick Edmonstone KCB, Louisa Macleod (Edmonstone) Browne, Ann Craigie Edmonstone, James Harenc Edmonstone and Alicia Augusta Edmonstone
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