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Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a right-wing British Liberal politician who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.
Coat of arms of the Earl of Elgin. In May 1695, Lord Elgin was accused, almost certainly with good reason, of having conspired to plan the restoration of King James II and in February 1696 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, [4] but admitted to bail a year later and allowed to leave England for Brussels. After more than 40 years in exile ...
The Elgin Bridge in Singapore, and Elgin Street, Carlton, State of Victoria, and Elgin Street, Hong Kong, are also named for Bruce, as is the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa. [15] Elgin's legacy in Canada was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada short docudrama, Lord Elgin: Voice of the People (1959), directed by Julian Biggs. [16]
The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the world's largest site dedicated to watchmaking. [1]
During the early 19th century, at a time when Greece was under Ottoman control, an aristocrat named Thomas Bruce—more popularly known as Lord Elgin—was British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Earl of Elgin (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n / ELG-in) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1633 for Thomas Bruce, 3rd Lord Kinloss.He was later created Baron Bruce, of Whorlton in the County of York, in the Peerage of England on 30 July 1641.
The 2,500-year-old sculptures were removed from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, when he was the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
The so-called Elgin Marbles could soon be returned to Greece as the British Museum reportedly closes in on a landmark deal. ... The 2,500-year-old marbles were taken by Lord Elgin in the early ...