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George Elphinstone was the son of George Elphinstone of Blythswood (died 2 April 1585), a leading Glasgow merchant and shipowner, and Marion Scott. He was knighted during the celebrations at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle on 30 August 1594. He was made a gentleman of the king's bedchamber in 1596. [1]
George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB (7 January 1746 – 10 March 1823) was a British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Fifth son of the 10th Lord Elphinstone, he was born in Elphinstone Tower, near Stirling, Scotland. Two of his brothers went to sea, and he followed their example by entering the Royal Navy in 1761, in HMS Royal Sovereign but then transferred to HMS ...
Hon. George Keith Elphinstone 1st Viscount Keith. 1746-1823. Born at Elphinstone Tower near Stirling on 7 January 1746, he was the fifth son of Charles, 10th Lord Elphinstone, and of his wife Lady Clementina Fleming, the daughter and heir of John, 6th Earl of Wigtown. The second son, a midshipman, was one of four hundred and eighty-five men who ...
George Keith Elphinstone, 1.º Vizconde Keith. Fue nombrado Barón de Keith del Reino Unido, un baronazgo irlandés que se entregó en 1797. Al reanudarse la guerra en 1803 fue nombrado comandante en jefe en el Mar del Norte, 3 cargo que ocupó hasta 1807. En febrero de 1812 fue nombrado comandante en jefe de la flota del Canal y en 1814 fue ...
KEITH-ELPHINSTONE, GEORGE, (viscount Keith, K. B. admiral of the Red, &c.) a distinguished modern naval officer, was the fifth son of Charles, tenth lord Elphinstone, by the lady Clementina Fleming, only child of John, sixth earl of Wigton, and niece and heir of line to the last earl Marischal. His lordship was born on the 12th January, 1746 ...
Another member was George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, who was the fifth son of the tenth Lord Elphinstone. Lord Keith's daughter Margaret Keith, 2nd Baroness Keith (who had succeeded to the two baronies of Keith held by her father according to special remainders in the letters patent), inherited the Lordship of Nairne in 1837, a title which is now held by the Viscount Mersey .
William George Keith Elphinstone. William George Keith Elphinstone CB (* 1782; † 23. April 1842 bei Tezeen in Afghanistan) war ein britischer Major-General und führte den verlustreichen Rückzug der Briten aus Kabul im Ersten Anglo-Afghanischen Krieg.
