Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank

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Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank (12 April 1870 - 13 September 1920), PC was a Scottish nobleman and Liberal politician.

The eldest son of Montolieu Fox Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount and 10th Lord Elibank, he was educated at Cheltenham.

Murray unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh West in May 1895, and Peebles and Selkirk in July 1895 and the City of York by-election in 1900. He was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1900-1905, Peebles and Selkirk from 1906-1910, and again for Midlothian from 1910-1912.

Murray served as Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household from 1905 to 1909 and Scottish Liberal Whip, 1906-1910; Under-Secretary of State for India in 1909; Chief Liberal Whip, 1909-1912; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, 1910-1912. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1911 and raised to the peerage as Baron Murray of Elibank in 1912.

He had no children and predeceased his father, the title of Viscount Elibank passing to his younger brother Gideon.

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