Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin

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Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

Diplomatist and army officer. Mentioned by Byron to Hobhouse in 1811-07-31a and by Hobhouse in 1811-08-02: "Thomas Bruce (1766-1841), seventh earl of Elgin and eleventh earl of Kincardine, was serving as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte when under his direction a team of artists headed by the Neapolitan Lusieri first studied the Hellenic antiquities at Athens and elsewhere and then excavated some of them for removal to England between 1803 and 1812. Byron, though no friend to the venture, which he attacked in The Curse of Minerva, had on leaving Greece carried a letter from Lusieri to Elgin, who probably wanted to see Byron for firsthand information on the excavations. See LJ, 2:65 n.5." BB 73n

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

Type

Person

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824; 1809-1811

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Birth Date

1766-07-20

Birthplace

Broomhall, Fife, Scotland

Death Date

1841-11-04

Occupation

Diplomatist and army officer

Bibliography

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3759?docPos=4

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Citation

Paul M Curtis, “Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed March 29, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/616.

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