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{{Infobox nobility title
| name              = Lordship of Elibank
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  |1= Quarterly:  ''1st and 4th, Or a Fetterlock Azure on a chief of the second three Mullets Argent ''(Murray of Blackbarony)'';  2nd and 3rd, Azure three Mullets within a Double Tressure flory counterflory Argent in the centre a Martlet Or ''(Murray of Elibank)
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| creation_date     = 18 March 1643
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| peerage           = [[Peerage of Scotland]] 
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| first_holder      = [[Patrick Murray, 1st Lord Elibank]]
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| present_holder    = Robert Francis Alan Erskine-Murray, 15th Lord Elibank
| heir_apparent     = 
| heir_presumptive  =  The Hon. Timothy Alexander Elibank Erskine-Murray
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| subsidiary_titles = Baronet of Elibank
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| family_seat       = The Coach House
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| motto             = '''Virtute Fideque'''<br/>(By virtue and faith)
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[[Image:Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank.jpg|thumb|Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank]]
'''Lord Elibank''', of Ettrick Forest in the County of Selkirk, is a title in the [[Peerage of Scotland]]. It was created in 1643 for [[Patrick Murray, 1st Lord Elibank|Sir Patrick Murray, 1st Baronet]], with remainder to his heirs male whatsoever. He had already been created a '''Baronet''', of Elibank, in the [[Baronetage of Nova Scotia]] in 1628. 

==History==
The first Lord's great-great-grandson, the fifth Lord, was an author and economist. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Lord, who was an [[admiral]] in the [[Royal Navy]]. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the seventh Lord. He represented [[Peeblesshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Peeblesshire]] in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] and also served as [[Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire]].

His great-grandson, the tenth Lord, was also Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. In 1911 he was created '''Viscount Elibank''', of Elibank in the County of Selkirk, in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. His eldest son and heir apparent, [[Alexander Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank|Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank]], was a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and was created [[Baron Murray of Elibank]] in 1912. However, he predeceased his father and the Viscount was succeeded by his younger son, the second Viscount. He sat as [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Glasgow St Rollox (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow St Rollox]] and served as Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. On his death the titles passed to his younger brother, the third Viscount. He represented [[Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Kincardineshire]] in Parliament as a Liberal.

However, on his death in 1962 the viscountcy became extinct while he was succeeded in the baronetcy and lordship by his third cousin, the thirteenth Lord. He was the great-grandson of the Hon. James Murray, fourth son of the seventh Lord. He was succeeded his first cousin, the fourteenth Lord. He was the son of Robert Alan Erskine-Murray, uncle of the thirteenth Lord. {{As of|2017}} the titles are held by his son, the fifteenth Lord, who succeeded his father in that year.

The Honourable [[Alexander Murray of Elibank]], fourth son of the fourth Lord, played a significant role in an abortive [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] conspiracy, in 1752, thereafter known as the Elibank Plot. He afterwards retired to France, where for some years he was, as "Count Murray", the representative of the Jacobite claimant [[James Francis Edward Stuart|"James III and VIII"]], known as the "Old Pretender", who created him Earl of Westminster (Letters Patent, August 12, 1759) in the [[Jacobite Peerage]], with remainder to heirs male of the body of his father, the fourth Lord Elibank.

==Family seat==
The family seat was [[Elibank Castle]] on the [[River Tweed]] just east of [[Walkerburn]] in the [[Scottish Borders]] but is now The Coach House, near [[Sunningdale]], [[Berkshire]].

==Ancestors of the Lords Elibank==

*John Murray (died 1477)
*? Murray
*John Murray (killed at the [[Battle of Flodden]] in 1513)
*Sir Andrew Murray of Blackbarony (died 1572)
*Sir [[Gideon Murray]], Lord Elibank (died 1621), commissioner of the Borders between 1605 and 1617.
* General [[James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721)|James Murray]], son of 4th Lord Elibank

==Lords Elibank (1643)==
*[[Patrick Murray, 1st Lord Elibank]] (died 1649)
*Patrick Murray, 2nd Lord Elibank (died 1671)
*Patrick Murray, 3rd Lord Elibank (died 1687)
*[[Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank]] (1677–1736)
*[[Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank]] (1703–1778)
*[[George Murray, 6th Lord Elibank]] (1706–1785)
*[[Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank]] (1747–1820)
*Alexander Murray, 8th Lord Elibank (1780–1830)
*Alexander Oliphant-Murray, 9th Lord Elibank (1804–1871)
*[[Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank|Montolieu Fox Oliphant-Murray, 10th Lord Elibank]] (1840–1927) (created '''Viscount Elibank''' in 1910)

==Viscount Elibank (1911)==
*[[Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank|Montolieu Fox Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank]] (1840–1927)
**[[Alexander Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank|Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank]] (1870–1920)
*[[Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank]] (1877–1951)
*[[Arthur Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank|Arthur Cecil Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank]] (1879–1962)

==Lords Elibank (1643; Reverted)==
*James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank (1902–1973)
*[[Alan D'Ardis Erskine-Murray, 14th Lord Elibank]] (1923–2017)
*[[Robert Francis Alan Erskine-Murray, 15th Lord Elibank]] (b. 1964)

The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's brother, Hon. Timothy Alexander Elibank Erskine-Murray (b. 1967)<br>
The [[heir presumptive]]'s heir apparent is his son, Alexander Alan John Erskine-Murray (b. 2003)

==References==

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==Attribution==
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/338 | location=160A [[Fleet Street]], London, UK |publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|page=338}}
*Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
*Ruvigny and Raineval, Marquis of, "The Jacobite Peerage", Edinburgh, 1904, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
* Douglas, Robert, Sir (1764). ''The peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... Collected from the public records and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates''. printed for John Donaldson, London, Edinburgh. Pages [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004896980.0001.000/251:101?page=root;size=100;view=text 240] - [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004896980.0001.000/253:101?page=root;size=100;view=text 242]
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