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Places

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Elphinstone, Queensland (Isaac Region) Elphinstone is a rural locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Elphinstone had a population of 6 people. Geography The Suttor Developmental Road passes east to west through the locality. Isaac River and its tributary Ann ...
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Elphinstone, Queensland (Toowoomba Region) Elphinstone is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Elphinstone had a population of 64 people. History The locality's name was originally a railway station name, called after pioneer Darling Downs pastorali ...
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Elphinstone, Victoria Elphinstone is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town sits at the junction of the former Calder Highway and the former Pyrenees Highway between Malmsbury and Castlemaine near Taradale and Chewton. Its local government area is the Shire of ...
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County of Elphinstone The County of Elphinstone is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Townsville. It was named after George Elphinstone Dalrymple (1826–1876), a politician and explorer. The county is divided into civil parishes.Towns ...
, Queensland * Lake Elphinstone, Queensland ;Canada: *
Elphinstone, Manitoba Elphinstone is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located northwest of Brandon, Manitoba and is on Highway 45. It is on the west ban ...
* Mount Elphinstone Provincial Park, British Columbia ;Egypt: * Elphinstone Reef,
Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...
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Prabhadevi railway station Parel – Prabhadevi railway station is a Railway station junction which connects the Central line and Western line of Mumbai Suburban Railway. It serves the area of Parel and Prabhadevi in Mumbai, India. This railway station has seven plat ...
known as Elphinstone Road until July 2017, Mumbai, India ;United Kingdom: *
Elphinstone, East Lothian Elphinstone is a village in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies south-west of Tranent on the B6414, and north-west of Ormiston. Etymology There is a fairy story about a witch called Meg who is supposed to have been involved in the naming of the vi ...
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Port Elphinstone Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen. Geography Inverurie is in the val ...
, Inverurie, Scotland


Groups and titles

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Clan Elphinstone Clan Elphinstone is a Lowland Scottish clan.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pag ...
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Lord Elphinstone Lord Elphinstone is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created by King James IV in 1510. History The title of Lord Elphinstone was granted by King James IV in 1510 to Sir Alexander Elphinstone of Elphinstone, who was killed at the Battle of ...
, a title in the Peerage of Scotland *
Elphinstone baronets There have been three baronetcies created for personswith the surname Elphinstone, two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2008 two of the creations are extant while one is dormant. The Elphins ...


Schools

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Elphinstone College Elphinstone College is one of the constituent colleges of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, a state cluster university. Established in 1823, it is one of the oldest colleges in Mumbai. It played a major role in shaping and developing the ed ...
, college of the University of Mumbai *
Elphinstone Hall Elphinstone Hall is a large hall belonging to the University of Aberdeen, located at their King's College campus in Old Aberdeen. It is a 20th-century building which replaced the "Common Hall" and is named after Bishop William Elphinstone, the ...
, part of King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland *
Elphinstone High School Elphinstone High School was a school established in 1822 in Bombay, India in honour of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827). In 1834 the Elphinstone Institute was founded, which started the Elphinstone College Elphin ...
, Mumbai, India


Other uses

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Elphinstone (surname) Elphinstone is a Scottish surname. It is locational from the lands of Elphinstone in the parish of Tranent. Notable people with the surname include: * Abi Elphinstone, British children's author * Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone (d ...
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Elphinstone Bioscope Madan Theatre Company, also known as Madan Theatres Limited or Madan Theatres in short, was a film production company founded by Jamshedji Framji Madan, one of the pioneers of Indian Cinema. History Madan, a young Parsi businessman, who had expe ...
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Elphinstone Place Elphinstone Place is a cancelled skyscraper project that was scheduled to be built in Glasgow, Scotland. The building, which had been in the planning stage since 2004 would have been a mixed-use development consisting of office, retail and re ...
, a cancelled building project in Glasgow, Scotland *
HMS Elphinstone No ships of the Royal Navy directly bore the name HMS ''Elphinstone''. However there were three ships named ''Elphinstone'' of the East India Company and the Royal Indian Marine which had close associations with the Royal Navy. They are named afte ...
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Elphinstone Engineering Elphinstone Engineering is an Australian company which manufactures specialised trailers for the transport industry and equipment for weighing trucks, including on-board scales that weigh the load. It focuses particularly on support for forestry. ...
, an Australian manufacturer of transport equipment and truck weighing systems, based in Triabunna, Tasmania * Elphinstone Group, an Australian manufacturer of mining equipment, based in Burnie, Tasmania {{disambiguation, geo