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Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

1849 - 1917

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Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a right-wing British Liberal politician who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899. He was appointed by Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to hold an investigative enquiry into the conduct of the Boer War in 1902 to 1903. The Elgin Commission was the first of its kind in the British Empire, and it travelled to South Africa and took oral evidence from men who had actually fought in the battles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin has received more than 201,177 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin is the 16,520th most popular politician (down from 15,440th in 2019), the 578th most popular biography from Canada (down from 571st in 2019) and the 50th most popular Canadian Politician.

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  • 200k

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  • 51.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 16,520 out of 19,576. Before him are Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, Daniel Risch, Jozefina Topalli, José Luis Ábalos, and Eevi Huttunen. After him are Les Aspin, Roy Welensky, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Charles Lee, Reiner Haseloff, and Jan-Erik Enestam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 109. Before him are Horace Lamb, William R. Day, August Palm, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edmund Gosse, and Aston Webb. After him are Edwin Lord Weeks, Sarat Chandra Das, Henrietta Edwards, and James Mason. Among people deceased in 1917, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 122. Before him are Albert Pinkham Ryder, Tom Thomson, Waldemar Tietgens, Mackenzie Bowell, Frank Odberg, and Janez Evangelist Krek. After him are Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Sarat Chandra Das, Belva Ann Lockwood, Joseph B. Foraker, Frederick McCubbin, and Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 578 out of 1,622. Before him are Hilarion Kapral (1948), Yvonne Brill (1924), Teryl Rothery (1962), Helen Shaver (1951), Hilda Strike (1910), and Claude Vivier (1948). After him are Daniel David Palmer (1845), William Diller Matthew (1871), Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Angela Hewitt (1958), Patrick Roy (1965), and Mackenzie Davis (1987).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 50. Before him are Marc Garneau (1949), Scotty Bowman (1933), Jeanne Sauvé (1922), Nellie McClung (1873), Gus Dillon (1881), and Jagmeet Singh (1979). After him are Patrick Roy (1965), Charles Tupper (1821), Gilles Duceppe (1947), Stéphane Dion (1955), William Cockburn (1902), and Norman Lane (1919).

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