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- ↑ Burkes Peerage and Baronetage (2003), s.v. Elphinstone, Lord, Chief of Elphinstone.
- ↑ "Burke's Peerage – Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone" . Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ↑ "Hon Rafe Mountstuart Elphinstone (born 2015)". Peerage News. 30 January 2015.
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