Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank

Commander Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank, DL, JP (27 April 1840 – 20 February 1927) was a British nobleman.

The eldest son of Alexander Oliphant-Murray, 9th Lord Elibank and Emily Montgomery, he was educated privately and entered the Royal Navy in 1854. In 1860 he served in the Second Opium War aboard HMS Cambrian (receiving the 2nd China War Medal and Taku clasp). He later served in the corvette HMS Wolverine during the Jamaica Rebellion of 1865. He retired in 1870 with the rank of Commander.

He succeeded his father as 10th Lord Elibank in 1871. He was Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire in the 1880s, before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire from 1896 to 1908. In 1911 he was created 1st Viscount Elibank. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. He was described by his younger son as a "staunch Conservative".

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