Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin

(1766-1841)

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.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin: Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 25 September 1811 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Edward Daniel Clarke to Lord Byron, [March 1812] in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Horner, [December] 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 18 June 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 276a Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter IX Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXVIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 37 Life of Byron: 1812 Found 1: ¶ 43 Life of Byron: 1813 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 45 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 17 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1823 Verse 1: p. 276a Chapter VII 1826 Found 2: ¶ 43 ¶ 45 Chapter V 1829 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1816 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 9 Found 1: ¶ 10 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VIII. 1811. Verse 2: p. 179.c p. 179.c Chapter X. 1811-12. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 1