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| William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of James Drummond Fullerton-Elphinstone and Anna Maria Buller | |||
| 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 | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1841 | Entered Navy | ||
| 16 October 1848 | Lieutenant | ||
| 3 November 1856 | Commander | ||
| 1 April 1870 | Retired Captain | ||
| 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 | |
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