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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

  Lord Elgin, or should I say, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, was born in London on July 20, 1811 and died in Dhurmsala in the Himalayas on November 20, 1863.  He was a well-educated man having attended Eton and Christ Church (Oxford). 

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