Elphinstone Road

Parallel to Montpelier Road is Elphinstone Road and running down from that are three roads one of which is Belair Road. The Elphinstone in question was Captain Thomas Elphinstone, who, during the Napoleonic Wars was living here in a picturesque building in this then rural area.

That building was Belair House and it stood, near the top of the present Elphinstone Road, until 1908. It was in the dining room of that house in 1815 that Lord Keith, Sir Henry Banbury and Admiral Sir Thomas Duckworth met and signed the papers that were to consign the fallen dictator Napoleon, to his imprisonment on the lonely isle of St Helena.

The naval captain's name is also perpetuated in Elphinstone Wharf between Phoenix Wharf and Fisher's Nose on the edge of Sutton Pool.