William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone R.N.
William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone R.N.
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William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone R.N. | Explanation |
Son of James Drummond Fullerton-Elphinstone and Anna Maria Buller |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
18 November 1828 | | Born |
13 January 1861 | | Succeeded (upon the death of his cousin) as 15th Baron Elphinstone, in the Scottish peerage |
1864 | | Married Constance Euphemia Woronzow Murray (d 1922), second daughter of the 6th Earl of Dromore |
27 November 1867 | 18 November 1885 | Elected Scottish Representative Peer |
13 December 1885 | | Created 1st Baron Elphinstone in the UK peerage |
18 January 1893 | | Died |
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Date | Rank |
1841 | Entered Navy |
16 October 1848 | Lieutenant |
3 November 1856 | Commander |
1 April 1870 | Retired Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
27 April 1849 | 1853 | Lieutenant in Cleopatra, commanded by Thomas Lecke Massie, East Indies |
28 December 1853 | 19 September 1854 | in Dauntless, commanded by Alfred Phillipps Ryder, Channel, then (1854) the Baltic and the Black Sea during the Russian War |
19 September 1854 | | Lieutenant in Royal Albert, commanded by William Robert Mends, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edmund Lyons, Mediterranean (and in the Black Sea during the Russian War) |
20 July 1860 | 3 May 1861 | Commander in Hornet (from commissioning at Portsmouth), East Indies and China |
9 December 1861 | 21 December 1861 | Commander in Stromboli (from commissioning at Portsmouth), Portsmouth |
10 May 1862 | | Commander in Vigilant, Channel squadron |
1874 | 1880 | Lord in Waiting, to Queen Victoria |