1811 - 1863
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, (20 July 1811 – 20 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842–1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847–1854), and Viceroy of India (1862–1863). In 1857, he was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin has received more than 420,602 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin is the 10,703rd most popular politician (up from 12,302nd in 2019), the 2,319th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,273rd in 2019) and the 361st most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin ranks 10,703 out of 15,577. Before him are Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria, Delfim Moreira, Chremonides, Margaret of Nevers, Ollanta Humala, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders. After him are Boris Pankin, Maria of Trebizond, Pietro Participazio, Winthrop Rockefeller, Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, and Raymond-Roupen.
1312 - 1333
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 10,697
1868 - 1920
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 10,698
400 BC - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,699
1393 - 1442
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,700
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,701
877 - 929
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,702
1811 - 1863
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,703
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,704
1405 - 1439
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,705
939 - 942
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,706
1912 - 1973
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 10,707
1240 - 1304
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 10,708
1199 - 1221
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 10,709
Among people born in 1811, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin ranks 44. Before him are Joseph Cafasso, William Robert Grove, Karl Gutzkow, J. C. Jacobsen, John William Draper, and Peter Julian Eymard. After him are Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Sakuma Shōzan, Horace Greeley, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, and Giulia Grisi. Among people deceased in 1863, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin ranks 28. Before him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Auguste Bravais, Peter Andreas Munch, Kamehameha IV, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg. After him are Robert Gould Shaw, Edward Robinson, Ignacio Comonfort, August Beer, Michel Garicoïts, and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.
1811 - 1860
HPI: 53.06
Rank: 38
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 39
1811 - 1878
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 40
1811 - 1887
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 41
1811 - 1882
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 42
1811 - 1868
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 43
1811 - 1863
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 44
1811 - 1902
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 45
1811 - 1864
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 46
1811 - 1872
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 47
1811 - 1873
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 48
1811 - 1877
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 49
1811 - 1869
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 50
1794 - 1863
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 22
1811 - 1863
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 23
1810 - 1863
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 24
1834 - 1863
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 25
1786 - 1863
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 26
1805 - 1863
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 27
1811 - 1863
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 28
1837 - 1863
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 29
1794 - 1863
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 30
1812 - 1863
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 31
1825 - 1863
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 32
1797 - 1863
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 33
1791 - 1863
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 34
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin ranks 2,319 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Kingsley (1819), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Branwell Brontë (1817), John Foxe (1516), David Mumford (1937), and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877). After him are Steve Jones (1955), Tony Judt (1948), Paul Young (1956), Ernest Marsden (1889), Delroy Lindo (1952), and Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891).
1819 - 1875
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 2,313
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 2,314
1817 - 1848
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 2,315
1516 - 1587
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 2,316
1937 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,317
877 - 929
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,318
1811 - 1863
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,319
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,320
1948 - 2010
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 2,321
1956 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,322
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,323
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2,324
1891 - 1914
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 2,325
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin ranks 361. Before him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Æthelheard of Wessex (750), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), Caradoc (470), and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877). After him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), Ernest Bevin (1881), and Gerry Adams (1948).
1891 - 1959
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 355
750 - 740
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 356
1889 - 1922
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 357
1215 - 1275
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 358
470 - 500
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 359
877 - 929
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 360
1811 - 1863
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 361
1891 - 1914
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 362
1874 - 1957
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 363
1870 - 1948
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 364
1929 - 2014
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 365
1881 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 366
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 367