Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank

Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank (7 August 1877 – 12 March 1951) was a Scottish colonial administrator, politician and nobleman.[1][2]

He was the third son of 1st Viscount Elibank of Selkirkshire and his wife Blanche Alice née Scott of Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire.[1][2] The family moved to Dresden in Germany in 1886, and he received his early education in the city, before attending Blairbridge School in Scotland.[1] On completing his education he took a job in a London bank, from which he resigned in 1897.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Obituary: Viscount Elibank. Service in Colonial Territories". The Times. 13 March 1951. p. 8.
  2. ^ a b "ELIBANK, 2nd Viscount, of Elibank". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2011.