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Heir of the Fleming estates - John Elphinstone-Fleming, 14th Lord Elphinstone
(1819 - 1861)
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John Elphinstone-Fleming, son of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleming, held the Fleming estate of Cumbernauld and, for the last six months of his life, the Elphinstone peerage as well.

Family background

John was born on 11 December 1819, the only son of Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleming of Cumbernauld and his Spanish wife, Donna Catalina Paulina Alessandro. He was the great-great-grandson of John, 6th Earl of Wigtown, through Lady Clementina Fleming. On his father’s death in 1840 he inherited Cumbernauld.

14th Lord Elphinstone

On 19 July 1860 his cousin John, 13th Lord Elphinstone, former Governor of Madras and of Bombay, died unmarried, and John succeeded him as 14th Lord Elphinstone. For a brief moment the Elphinstone peerage and the Fleming estate of Cumbernauld were held by the same man, as they had been in the time of his great-great-grandmother Lady Clementina.

Death and legacy

John died on 13 January 1861, less than six months after inheriting the title, and he left no son. The Elphinstone peerage passed to a distant cousin, while the Fleming inheritance appears to have passed to his sister Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, and through her to the Maude-Flemings.