James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

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Lord Elgin, in a 1860 photograph by Felice Beato. Getty Museum Archives.

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, was British ambassador to China in the 1850s, and the chief British representative who signed the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1858.