Dr James Robert Erskine-Murray FRSE MIEE (1868-1927) was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor.
His proposers were Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, William Jack and Joseph Bell.
During the First World War he was attached to the Royal air Force with the rank of lieutenant commander, being placed in charge of wireless instruments and radio communications.
In 1922 he created an electronic device which acted as a navigation aid, a forerunner of the global positioning system.
[8] Their only son, James Alistair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray (1902-1973) succeeded to the title 13th Lord Elibank in 1962 upon the death of an uncle.