William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone and 1st Baron Elphinstone (18 November 1828 – 18 January 1893), known as William Elphinstone until 1861, was a Scottish

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Elphinstone was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Drummond Fullerton Elphinstone, fourth son of the Hon. William Elphinstone, third son of Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone. His mother was Anna Maria, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Buller

Sir Edward Buller, 1st Baronet

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. He succeeded his second cousin in the lordship in 1861 and was elected a Scottish Representative Peer

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 in 1867. Elphinstone served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

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) under Benjamin Disraeli from 1874 to 1880 and under Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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 from 1885 to 1886 and from 1886 to 1889. In 1885 he was created Baron Elphinstone, of Elphinstone in the County of Haddington, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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Lord Elphinstone married Lady Constance Euphemia, daughter of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

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, in 1864. He died in January 1893, aged 64, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Sidney

Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone

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. Lady Elphinstone died in March 1922.