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.
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/
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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- Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Malta, May 15th 1811 (75) [Person Mentions]