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John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone, 1st Baron Elphinstone, GCB, GCH, PC (23 June 1807 – 19 July 1860) was a Scottish soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was twice elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a Scottish representative peer, serving once from 14 January 1833 to 29 December 1834 and then ...
John Alexander Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone and 3rd Baron Elphinstone DL (22 March 1914 – 15 November 1975) was a British nobleman and serviceman during World War II. He was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
John Elphinstone, also known as John Elphinston (1722 – 28 February 1785), was a senior British naval officer who worked closely with the Russian Navy after 1770, with approval from the Admiralty, during the period of naval reform under Russian Empress Catherine II.
From the the late sixteenth century the Elphinstones were a family of prominent lawyers and government officials, with a strong Presbyterian background and a penchant for getting themselves into trouble.
Created Baron Keith of Banheath in the County of Dunbarton, with a special remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to his daughter Margaret Mercer Elphinstone. On his death the Viscountcy of Keith and the UK Barony of Keith (cr. 1801) became extinct.
John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone, was the second son of the 6th Lord. He was baptized at Airth on 28 August 1649. He married Isabel Maitland, daughter of Charles Maitland, Lord Hatton, in 1670.
Elphinstone was one of a handful of British officers who joined the Russian service of Catherine the Great in the summer of 1769, and he was employed in the rank of rear-admiral. He also took his sons John and Samuel with him.
