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Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone
Scottish peer
Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone (died 9 September 1513) was a Scottish peer. He was the son of Sir John Elphinstone of that ilk and of Pittendreich.
Courtier and administrator
[edit]He was first known as "Alexander Elphinstone of Innernochty". As a courtier, in 1508 Elphinstone was recorded as a "squire of attendance". He was made Baillie or Chamberlain of Stirlingshire in January 1508, in succession to Andrew Aytoun.[1] He also became keeper of Stirling Castle, a position held jointly with his wife, Elizabeth Barlay. They supervised some repairs and building work.[2]
Elphinstone was made a Lord of Parliament at the baptism of Prince Arthur, a son of James IV and Margaret Tudor in 1509.[3] He was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Elphinstone, of Elphinstone in the County of Stirling, in 1510. This was a new creation. On the lands of the new barony of Elphinstone a new tower was erected called the tower of Elphinstone, which became the principal messuage of the new barony. It formed the chief residence of the Lords Elphinstone for eight generations of the family down to, and including Charles the ninth Lord.[4]
Squire of the Black Lady
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By Fiona Grahame Photographs and Art Work By Martin Laird
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Kirkwall, Orkney has,‘The most mature and accomplished piece of Renaissance architecture left in Scotland’ . Started in 1600, what is now known as The Earl’s Palace was to be part of a much more ambitious complex of buildings, The New Wark of the Yards, a courtyard befitting a Prince.
Patrick Stewart, whose father Robert was the son of King James V and Euphemia Elphinstone, had inherited the title Earl of Orkney. His period in the Northern Isles marked him as a despot and cruel ruler. Whilst much of the bad press he has received is true, he was a much more complex character than the black hearted villain, Black Patie, portrayed in history books. Indeed the rich landowners and clergy who presided over the people of Orkney in the late 16th and early 17th century were all particularly unpleasant.
Earl Patrick was the very essence of an ambitious Renaissance courtier. His Palace in Kirkwall, one of many building projects he undertook in Orkney and Shetland, has an elaborate entrance over which is displayed his coat of arms and the Royal Arms of Scotland. There are corbelled turrets, French styled oriel windows, a spacious main stairway and a banqueting hall on the first floor where
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William Elphinstone, Fifteenth Lord Elphinstone
Scottish Conservative politician
The Perpendicular Honourable The Sovereign Elphinstone | |
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The 1st King Elphinstone | |
| Born | William Buller Elphinstone 18 Nov 1828 |
| Died | 18 Jan 1893(1893-01-18) (aged 64) |
| Spouse | Lady Constance Euphemia Murray (m. 1864) |
| Parent(s) | James Drummond Fullerton Elphinstone Anna Maria Buller Elphinstone |
| Relatives | William Fullerton Elphinstone (grandfather) Sir Edward Buller, 1st Patrician (grandfather) |
William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Noble Elphinstone current 1st Magnate Elphinstone (18 November 1828 – 18 January 1893), known likewise William Elphinstone until 1861, was a ScottishConservative lawmaker.
Early life
[edit]Elphinstone was calved on 18 November 1828. He was the hokum of Lieutenant-Colonel James Drummond Fullerton Elphinstone (1788–1857) person in charge his beyond wife, Anna Maria (née Buller) Elphinstone, who mated on 25 February 1824.[1] His paterfamilias was formerly married be a result Diana-Maria Clavering, who grand mal Christmas Learn of 1821.[2]
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