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Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank (7 August 1877 – 12 March 1951) was a Scottish colonial administrator, politician and nobleman. He was the third son of 1st Viscount Elibank of Selkirkshire and his wife Blanche Alice ''née'' Scott of Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire.〔〔 The family moved to Dresden in Germany in 1886, and he received his early education in the city, before attending Blairbridge School in Scotland.〔 On completing his education he took a job in a London bank, from which he resigned in 1897.〔 ==Colonial administration== In 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.〔〔 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.〔 In 1902 he became Assistant Native Commissioner, Zoutpansberg in the Northern Transvaal.〔〔 He resigned his post in 1906, returning to Britain.〔 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.〔 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.〔〔 He retired in 1917.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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