Career
The eldest son of Robert Alan Erskine-Murray, Alan D'Ardis Erskine-Murray, 14th Lord Elibank was born on 31 December 1923 and educated at Bedford School and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War and was admitted by Middle Temple as a barrister in 1949. He succeeded to the title of 14th Baronet Murray of Etrick Forest and 14th Lord Elibank of Etrick Forest upon the death of James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank, on 2 June 1973.