Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone


Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone and 5th Baron Elphinstone, is a British peer in both the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Early life and family

Lord Elphinstone is the son of James Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone, and Willa Mary Gabrielle Chetwode. His mother is the daughter of Major George David Chetwode and Lady Willa Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, daughter of Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 5th Earl of Minto.
He is a great-great-grandson of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a great-grandnephew of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Lord Elphinstone's paternal grandfather, Rev. Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, was a first cousin of Elizabeth II, through his mother, the former Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon, who was an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
He was educated at Belhaven Hill School, Eton College, Newcastle University, and the SOAS, University of London.

Personal life

He married Nicola J. Hall on 7 July 2007 at Holy Trinity Church, Penn, in Buckinghamshire. The couple have three children: