Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank

Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank (1877 – 12 March 1951) was a Scottish politician and nobleman, inheriting the viscountcy as the eldest surviving son of 1st Viscount Elibank.

Oliphant-Murray was Private Secretary to George Le Hunte, Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea in 1898; Resident Magistrate Western Division, 1900-January 1901; British representative on Joint Commission with Resident of Dutch New Guinea to determine perpetrators of devastations by natives in British territory; Acting Commandant Armed Native Constabulary, 1901; Private Secretary to Commissioner for Native Affairs, Transvaal, 1901; Assistant Native Commissioner, Zoutpansberg, 1902-1906 (Queen's medal with two clasps), Anglo-Boer War; Assistant Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1907-1909; Administrator, St Vincent, 1909-1915;

He served as Administrator of St Lucia, 1915-1917; Acting Governor of the Windward Islands, 1916; Food Commissioner, Glasgow and Western Counties of Scotland, 1917-1918. He became Unionist Member of Parliament for Glasgow St Rollox in 1918, serving until 1922.

Following the death of his elder brother Alexander in 1920, he succeeded his father as Viscount Elibank and Lord Elibank in 1927. He was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1911 and 1937, the King's Jubilee Medal in 1935, and was Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire from 1934-1945.

He was Honorary Colonel of the 8th Battalion The Royal Scots from 1939-1945 and a Member of Speaker's Parliamentary Devolution Conference, 1919-1920. He held a number of business appointments, and was an Honorary Member of the Royal Company of Archers.

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