Lord Elphinstone
Lord Elphinstone is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .
The respective lord is the hereditary chief of the Elphinstone clan .
The Lords' family seat was Elphinstone Tower near Airth in Falkirk and is now Whitberry House near Tyninghame in East Lothian .
Award
The title was created on January 14, 1509 for the Scottish knight Sir Alexander Elphinstone of Elphinstone .
His descendant, the 13th Lord, was the British governor of Bombay and Madras . He was awarded the title Baron Elphinstone , of Elphinstone in the County of Stirling, on May 21, 1859 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . When he died childless on July 19, 1860, this title expired. The title Lord Elphinstone fell to a cousin as the 14th Lord.
The 15th Lord was raised to Baron Elphinstone , of Elphinstone in the County of Haddington, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on December 30, 1885 . This title has since been united with that of Lord Elphinstone.
List of Lords Elphinstone (1509)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone († 1513)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Elphinstone (1510–1547)
- Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone (1530-1602)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone (1552-1638)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 5th Lord Elphinstone (1577-1648)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 6th Lord Elphinstone († 1654)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 7th Lord Elphinstone (1647–1669)
- John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone (1649-1718)
- Charles Elphinstone, 9th Lord Elphinstone (1676–1757)
- Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone (1711–1781)
- John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone (1737-1813)
- John Elphinstone, 12th Lord Elphinstone (1764-1813)
- John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone , 1st Baron Elphinstone (1807-1860)
- John Fleeming, 14th Lord Elphinstone (1819–1861)
- William Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone , 1st Baron Elphinstone (1828-1893)
- Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone , 2nd Baron Elphinstone (1869–1955)
- John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone , 3rd Baron Elphinstone (1914–1975)
- James Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone , 4th Baron Elphinstone (1953-1994)
- Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone , 5th Baron Elphinstone (* 1980)
Estimated heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current title holder, Jago Elphinstone, Master of Elphinstone (* 2011).
Members of the family
William Fullerton Elphinstone was the third son of the 10th Lord Elphinstone and director of the British East India Company . His younger brother George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, was an admiral during the Napoleonic Wars . Major General William George Keith Elphinstone , the son of William Fullerton Elphinstone, led the loss-making retreat of the British from Kabul in the First Anglo-Afghan War . Mountstuart Elphinstone, son of the 11th Lord Elphinstone, became governor of Bombay in 1820 .