1849 - 1917
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 136,278 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin is the 14,000th most popular politician (down from 12,369th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Canada (down from 351st in 2019) and the 40th most popular Canadian Politician.
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Among politicians, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 14,000 out of 15,710. Before him are Ján Figeľ, Nirmala Sitharaman, Denis Healey, Michael Jeffery, Tip O'Neill, and Howard Dean. After him are Seiko Hashimoto, Milton Margai, Augusto Santos Silva, Nadia Calviño, Henri Emmanuelli, and Jon Kyl.
1960 - Present
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 13,994
1959 - Present
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 13,995
1917 - 2015
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 13,996
1937 - 2020
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 13,997
1912 - 1994
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 13,998
1948 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 13,999
1849 - 1917
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 14,000
1964 - Present
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 14,001
1895 - 1964
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 14,002
1956 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 14,003
1968 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 14,004
1945 - 2017
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 14,005
1942 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 14,006
Among people born in 1849, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 83. Before him are Mohammad Yaqub Khan, José Manuel Pando, August Palm, Horace Lamb, William R. Day, and Edmund Gosse. After him is Edwin Lord Weeks. Among people deceased in 1917, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 95. Before him are Tom Thomson, Mary Arthur McElroy, Albert Ball, Giuseppe Veronese, Richard Olney, and Mackenzie Bowell. After him are Sandy Turnbull and Joseph B. Foraker.
1849 - 1923
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 77
1849 - 1917
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 78
1849 - 1922
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 79
1849 - 1934
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 80
1849 - 1923
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 81
1849 - 1928
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 82
1849 - 1917
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 83
1849 - 1903
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 84
1877 - 1917
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 89
1841 - 1917
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 90
1896 - 1917
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 91
1854 - 1917
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 92
1835 - 1917
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 93
1823 - 1917
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 94
1849 - 1917
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 95
1884 - 1917
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 96
1846 - 1917
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 97
Among people born in Canada, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 518 out of 1,130. Before him are Lolita Davidovich (1961), Harry Watson (1898), Leonard Peikoff (1933), Bobby Clarke (1949), Gene Lockhart (1891), and Laura Vandervoort (1984). After him are Guy Delisle (1966), Tatiana Maslany (1985), Patrick Roy (1965), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Peter Jennings (1938), and K.d. lang (1961).
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 512
1898 - 1957
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 513
1933 - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 514
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 515
1891 - 1957
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 516
1984 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 517
1849 - 1917
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 518
1966 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 519
1985 - Present
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 520
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 521
1861 - 1913
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 522
1938 - 2005
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 523
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 524
Among politicians born in Canada, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin ranks 40. Before him are Scotty Bowman (1933), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), Jeanne Sauvé (1922), Charles Tupper (1821), Ted Lindsay (1925), and Gilles Duceppe (1947). After him are Patrick Roy (1965), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Marc Garneau (1949), S. I. Hayakawa (1906), Ian Millar (1947), and Stéphane Dion (1955).
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 34
1879 - 1964
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 35
1922 - 1993
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 36
1821 - 1915
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 37
1925 - 2019
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 38
1947 - Present
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 39
1849 - 1917
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 40
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 41
1943 - Present
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 42
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 43
1906 - 1992
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 44
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 45
1955 - Present
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 46