Major General Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet CB (4 March 1773 – 28 April 1846) was a commander of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War.
He was present for the expedition that took the Cape of Good Hope in 1795, and was promoted to lieutenant on 5 February 1796 and captain on 1 July 1800.
Elphinstone commanded the engineers in Sir David Baird's Indian army sent to help expel the French from Egypt in 1801.
[1] He saw his first service in the Peninsular War at the Battle of Roliça, where he was badly wounded and subsequently left the theatre.
He was created 1st Baronet of Elphinstone, of Sowerby in the County of Cumberland, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 May 1816, and nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath.