| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Elphinstone | |
| Honorific Suffix: | AssocRICS |
| Birthname: | James Alexander Elphinstone |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1953 |
| Children: | 4, including Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone |
James Alexander Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone and 4th Baron Elphinstone, AssocRICS (22 April 1953 – 19 December 1994), was a British nobleman, farmer, and financier.[1]
Lord Elphinstone was the son of Rev. Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone and Jean Frances Hambro. His paternal grandparents were Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, and the former Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon, elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Agricultural College.[2]
He was a Professional Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
On 22 April 1978, Lord Elphinstone married Willa Mary Gabrielle Chetwode, daughter of Major George David Chetwode and Lady Willa Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (herself the daughter of Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 5th Earl of Minto, and his wife, Marion Cook). The couple had four children:
He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Alexander.