About Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank
Lived 1877 – 1951 (aged 73). Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank was a British politician.
Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank (7 August 1877 – 12 March 1951) was a Scottish colonial administrator, politician and nobleman.
He was the third son of 1st Viscount Elibank of Selkirkshire and his wife Blanche Alice née Scott of Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire. The couple moved to South Africa in August 1950, and he died in Cape Town in March 1951, aged 73. Ermine returned to England and took up residence in Mayfair at the Lansdowne Club close to Berkeley Square where she died in 1955 aged 76. Ermine Mary Katherine Murray (née Madocks), Viscountess Elibank, 1921 & 1930, by Bassano Ltd, National Portrait Gallery, 1925 Portrait by Philip de László
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Who was Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank?
Scottish colonial administrator (1877-1951)
When was Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank born?
Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank was born on 7 August 1877.
When did Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank die?
Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank died on 12 March 1951.
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Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank was a politician.
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Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank was British.
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