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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841 NRA: Bruce, Thomas (1766-1841) 7th Earl of Elgin DNB: Bruce, Thomas, seventh earl of Elgin and eleventh earl of Kincardine (1766-1841), diplomatist and army officer LBT ID: LdElgin7 VIAF ID: 27084309 LOC ID: n81140068 | B/BAP: 1766-07-20 DIED: 1841-11-04 |
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British ambassador to Constantinople (1799); with the permission of the Turks he removed
the Parthenon marbles which were purchased for the British Museum in 1816. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin: Sir Walter Scott to Lord Elgin, 20 January 1829 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) | |
