[额尔金 / 額爾金, É ěr jīn, ㄜˊ ㄦˇ ㄐㄧㄣ]James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860; Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1[Add to Longdo]