Lancelot Elphinstone

Sir Lancelot Henry Elphinstone (2 September 1879 – 11 October 1965) was the 22nd Attorney General of Ceylon.

The son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet and Husband of Jane E Jamieson.

Elphinstone was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was appointed Attorney General of Ceylon on 6 October 1924, succeeding Henry Gollan, and held the office until 1929.

[2] From 1929 to 1932 he was the Chief Judge of the Federated Malay States.