ELGIN

James Bruce, eighth Earl of, and twelfth Earl of Kincardine, Governor-General of India, born in 1811, died in 1863. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, he entered Parliament in 1841 as member for Southampton, and in the same year succeeded to the earldom. He was appointed Governor-General of Jamaica in 1842, and in 1846 Governor General of Canada. In 1849 he was raised to the British peerage as Baron Elgin of Elgin. In 1857 he went as special amba ador to China, and concluded the Treaty of Tientsin (1858). In 1859 he became Postmaster-General in Palmers ton’s Cabinet, in 1860 was sent on a special mi ion to Peking, and in 1861 became Governor-General of India. Victor Alexander Bruce, ninth Karl of Elgin, son of the preceding, born 1849, died 1917, was also Governor General of India (1894—9),and Colonial Secretary in the Campbell-Banner man Ministry from Dec., 1905, to April, 1908.