[2] His mother was the only daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Buller and Gertrude van Cortlandt (descendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the Schuyler family and the de Peyster family from British North America).

[6] In March 1885 he accompanied the Froudes to New Zealand where they visited the Pink & White Terraces at Tarawera and stayed with Sir George Grey on Kawarau Island.

During his travels, Lord Elphinstone kept a portfolio of sketches which the elder Froude used when he published Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies in 1886.

Together, they were the parents of five children, only one of whom married:[1] He died in January 1893, aged 64, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest surviving son Sidney.

[1] Lady Elphinstone died in March 1922, and lived in Pinewood, Windlesham, Surrey.