Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank

Politician

1877 – 1951

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Who was Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank?

Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank 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 family moved to Dresden in Germany in 1886, and he received his early education in the city, before attending Blairbridge School in Scotland. On completing his education he took a job in a London bank, from which he resigned in 1897.

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Born
Aug 7, 1877
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Died
Mar 12, 1951
Cape Town

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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