GILBERT

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GILBERT ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 2nd

earl

EARL

of Minto (1782-1859), eldest son of the 1st

earl

EARL

, was

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Berlin from 1832 to 1834, first lord of the admiralty from 1835 to 1841 and lord privy seal from 1846 to 1852. His influence in the Whig party was partly due to the fact that his daughter, Frances, was the wife of Lord John Russell.
His son William Hugh, the 3rd earl (18141891), was the father of the 4th earl, GILBERT JOHN ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND (1845 ), who joined the Scots Guards in 1867. In 1874, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent, he witnessed the operations of the Carlists in Spain; he took service with the , Turkish army in the war with Russia in 1877 and served under Lord Roberts in the second Afghan War (187879), having narrowly escaped accompanying Sir Louis Cavagnari Kabul. He acted as private secretary to Lord Roberts during his mission to the Cape in 1881; as military secretary to Lord Lansdowne during his

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-generalship of Canada from 1883 to 1885; and as

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of the staff to General Middleton in the Riel Rebellion in Canada (1885). Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891 he was appointed

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-general of Canada in 1898. His

term

TERM

of office (18981904) was distinguished by a visit of the prince and princess of Wales to the colonies. In 1905, on the resignation of Lord Curzon, Lord Minto was appointed viceroy and governor-general of India, retiring in 1910.
The 4th earl's brother, the Hon. Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (b. 1846), editor of the Edinburgh.

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

, was a member of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

from 188o to 1892 and again from 1898 to 1906, and from 1903 to 1906 he was

financial

FINANCIAL

secretary to the treasury. Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot (b. 1851), a grandson of the 2nd earl, became British minister at Athens in 1903.
See Hon. G. F. S. Elliot, The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto (Edinburgh, 1897); the article INDIA; History; also the Life and Letters of the first Earl of Minto, 17511806 (1874) and Lord Minto in India, 18071814 (188o), both edited by the countess of Minto; and Sir J. F. Stephen, The Story of Nuncomar and the

Impeachment

IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder,
Late
- LATE
Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

of Sir E. Impey (1885).

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