Blazon of arms:
Shield: Quarterly 1st and 4th Or a fetterlock Azure and on a chief of the same three stars Argent; (Murray of Blackbarony); 2nd and 3rd Azure between three stars Argent a martlet Or all within a double tressure flory counterflory Argent (Murray of Elibank).
SOURCES, NOTES & CREDITS: The illustration for background and the text are from the article by Wikipedia. The blazon has been reworked and corrected by John Hamilton Gaylor for which we thank him.
Lord Elibank of Ettrick Forest in the County of Selkirk, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1643 for Sir Patrick Murray, 1st Baronet, with remainder to his heirs male whatsoever. He had already been created a Baronet, of Elibank, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1628.
The first Lord’s great-great-grandson, the fifth Lord, was an author and economist. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Lord, who was an admiral in the Royal Navy. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the seventh Lord.
His great-grandson, the tenth Lord, was also Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. In 1911 he was created Viscount Elibank, of Elibank in the County of Selkirk, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
However, on the death of the 3rd Viscount in 1962 the viscountcy became extinct and was succeeded in the baronetcy and lordship by his third cousin, the thirteenth Lord. He was the great-grandson of the Hon. James Murray, fourth son of the seventh Lord. He was succeeded his first cousin, the fourteenth Lord. He was the son of Robert Alan Erskine-Murray, uncle of the thirteenth Lord. As of 2017 the titles are held by his son, the fifteenth Lord, who succeeded his father in that year. The Fifteenth Lord has an heir who also has an heir so this peerage looks safe for now.
The Honourable Alexander Murray of Elibank, fourth son of the fourth Lord, played a significant role in an abortive Jacobite conspiracy, in 1752, thereafter known as the Elibank Plot. He afterwards retired to France, where for some years he was, as “Count Murray”, the representative of the Jacobite claimant “James III and VIII”, known as the “Old Pretender”, who created him Earl of Westminster in Letters Patent, August 12, 1759 in the Jacobite Peerage, with remainder to heirs male of the body of his father, the fourth Lord Elibank.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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