| 词条 | Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank |
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He was the third son of 1st Viscount Elibank of Selkirkshire and his wife Blanche Alice née Scott of Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire.[1][2] The family moved to Dresden in Germany in 1886, and he received his early education in the city, before attending Blairbridge School in Scotland.[1] On completing his education he took a job in a London bank, from which he resigned in 1897.[1] Colonial administrationIn 1898 he left the United Kingdom to begin a career as a colonial administrator when he became private secretary to George Le Hunte, Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea. Two years later he was created a resident magistrate in the Western Division of the colony, and in 1901 was appointed acting commandant of the Armed Native Constabulary.[1][2] Later that year he moved to South Africa where the Second Boer War was entering its closing stages. He initially acted as private secretary to the Commissioner for Native Affairs, Transvaal.[1] In 1902 he became Assistant Native Commissioner, Zoutpansberg in the Northern Transvaal.[1][2] He resigned his post in 1906, returning to Britain.[1] In the following year he was appointed assistant private secretary to Francis Hopwood, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. In that capacity he attended the 1907 Colonial Conference.[1] In 1909 he was appointed administrator of St Vincent, becoming Commissioner of Saint Lucia in 1915 and Acting Governor of the Windward Islands in 1916.[1][2] He retired in 1917.[1] PoliticsOliphant-Murray returned to Scotland at the height of the First World War taking up the post of Food Commissioner for Glasgow and the Western Counties of Scotland.[1][2] When a general election was held at the end of 1918, he was elected as Unionist Member of Parliament for Glasgow St Rollox.[1][2] A staunch supporter of Ulster Unionism, he broke with the coalition government led by David Lloyd George in February 1922 over its Irish policy, and did not defend his seat at the general election in November of that year.[1] As the oldest surviving son, he succeeded his father as Viscount Elibank and Lord Elibank in 1927.[1] He was an active member of the House of Lords, and an enthusiastic supporter of the United Empire Party established by Lord Beaverbrook.[1] He was also a frequent speaker on colonial matters in the house, criticising the governments of Canada and New Zealand and opposing the increased autonomy granted under the Government of India Act 1935.[1] He was also a severe critic of the Labour Government that came to power in 1945.[1] In 1934 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire, holding the position until 1945.[1] He was also Honorary Colonel of the 8th Battalion The Royal Scots from 1939 to 1945.[1] He held a number of business appointments, and was an Honorary Member of the Royal Company of Archers.[1] He wrote his autobiography, A Man's Life in 1934.[1] FamilyIn 1908 he married Ermine M. K. Aspinwall of Denbighshire.[1][2] The couple had no children.[1] The couple moved to South Africa in August 1950, and he died in Cape Town in March 1951, aged 73.[1] He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother, Arthur Cecil Murray.[1] References
1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 {{cite news|title=Obituary: Viscount Elibank. Service In Colonial Territories|date=13 March 1951|work=The Times|page=8}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U236926|title=ELIBANK, 2nd Viscount, of Elibank|date=December 2007|work=Who Was Who|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=27 December 2011}} External links
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