Talk:Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

message: The sentence in question is "Thomas Bruce...notorious for the removal of marble sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens...."  "Notorious" is too strong.  "Famous" shows similar bias but in the opposite direction.  I have changed the word to "known."
193.255.108.20 08:18, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is apparently an enduring issue. It looks like there is a slow motion edit war happening now, 16 years later, with some parties describing the removal as "theft" and some as a "controversial procurement." "Theft" is at odds with the content lower down in the page. Recognitor (talk) 16:32, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Heraldica 76.148.165.128 (talk) 15:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: In reading biographical information on Mary Nisbet, the birth of a second son to Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin, is mentioned. According to http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I82762&tree=Nixon this son's name was William Bruce. He was born 4 March 1804, and died 20 April 1805. Their source for this information, which I have not seen, is cited as: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1910), Cokayne, George Edward (main author) and Vicary Gibbs (added author), (New edition. 13 volumes in 14. London: St. Catherine Press,1910-), vol. 5 p. 44 fn. (d).
Npl4wiki (talk) 22:48, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction in citation for children 

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This is interesting at least for Germans, as Kalmyk (the artist) worked in Karlsruhe, before accompanying Elgin to Greece. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Iwanowitsch_Kalm%C3%BCck ought to have an English article. Stephanie  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.128.89.183 (talk) 13:38, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalmyk 

message: The section of the article Elgin's procurement of the Parthenon Marbles contains much relevant information but it is clear that it has been written piecemeal and that editors have jammed information into paragraphs where in some case they have no relevance, or have been detached from the first and relevant sentence by the unthinking insertion of other information. 
I will tidy it up, probably retaining every single one of the current sentences. 
This is a rearrangement, not a rewrite, and I am not searching for missing references. 
Amandajm (talk) 17:42, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organisation 

message: In section 'Return to Britain and Later Life' it is stated: "Elgin married Elizabeth Oswald of Dunnikier with whom he was to have eight children".
In the following section it says that Elgin and his second wife had four sons and three daughters. 
Is the first section wrong or was there another child that we don't talk about? Kombo the mzungu (talk) 08:28, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. The biography says he had eight children with his second wife, but Burke's Peerage says seven. I'll go with Burke's. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 09:43, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is an error somewhere