Millport, Cumbrae, a town on the island of Cumbrae in North Ayrshire, Scotland
elmhirsti was named in 1909 by Alexander Patience in honour of Richard Elmhirst, who was the director at that time of the University Marine Biological Station at Millport.
He served as principal of the Theological College, Chichester, from 1846 to 1848, and was a canon and a reader in theology in Cumbrae College (the college built by the Earl of Glasgow in the island of Cumbrae, Buteshire) from 1853 to 1858, having at the same time charge of the episcopal church in that island.
University Marine Biological Station Millport, originally at Granton, Edinburgh, now at Great Cumbrae on the Firth of Clyde