Anglo Indian miniature of the Hon Monstuart Elphinstone C1810

Anglo Indian miniature of the Honourable Monstuart Elphinstone wearing a blue jacket with embroidered red waiscoat with paisley design and a white stock.  He is wearing a fur hat on his brown hair and is holding a hookah pipe.  Watercolour on ivory probably painted by an English artist in India C1810.  Period gold edged frame, the revese with glazed plaited hair.

NB: Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was a Scottish Statesman who was Governor of Bombay from 1819-27. He promoted education in India at the time Britain was of opinion against educating 'the natives' and was regarded as the founder of the system of stated education in India.  One of his principal achievements was the compilation of the 'Elphinstone code'.  He was one of 7 founder members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830.