Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Elphinstone (1511-1547) was a Scottish landowner.
Alexander Elphinstone was the son of Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone, and Elizabeth Barlow, an English gentlewoman in the household of Margaret Tudor.William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 2.
Alexander became Lord Elphinstone after the death of his father at the Battle of Flodden in September 1513.
Lord Elphinstone died from wounds received at the Battle of Pinkie in September 1547.Margaret Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 2002), p. 141.
Family Alexander Elphinstone married Katharine Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine, by his wife Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart. Their children included;William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), pp. 87-92. Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone Michael Elphinstone (1544-1625), Master of Household to James VI of Scotland.William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), pp. 89–90.Amy Juhala, "For the King Favours Them Very Strangely", Miles Kerr-Peterson and Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland (Routledge, 2017), p. 167 fn. 14. Elizabeth Elphinstone, who married David Somerville of Plean Castle Isobel Elphinstone, who married John Hamilton of Haggs. Margaret Elphinstone, who married John Livingstone younger of Dunipace. Margery Elphinstone, who married Robert Drummond of Carnock.
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