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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.
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.
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. In 1770 he commanded a squadron that sailed from the Baltic to the Mediterranean to join operations against the Turks.
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.
In 1471, the Elphinstone lands in East Lothian (there are the remains of an earlier Elphinstone Tower near the village of Elphinstone near Tranent) were conveyed to the Johnstones of Elphinstone, leaving the family's land in Pittendreich, Stirlingshire, as their chief estate.
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.
