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James Bruce

1730 - 1794

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James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Bruce is the 188th most popular explorer (down from 168th in 2019), the 1,760th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,406th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, James Bruce ranks 188 out of 498. Before him are Sophie Blanchard, Niccolò de' Conti, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Matthew Flinders, John Marshall, and Hanno the Navigator. After him are Annie Londonderry, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Alexander Mackenzie, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Gaspar Corte-Real, and Simon Fraser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, James Bruce ranks 13. Before him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony. After him are Otto Friedrich Müller, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Antonio Sacchini, Motoori Norinaga, Augustin Pajou, and Velu Nachiyar. Among people deceased in 1794, James Bruce ranks 35. Before him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Jacques Roux, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Fabre d'Églantine. After him are Paisius Velichkovsky, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Lucile Desmoulins, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Anacharsis Cloots, and Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Bruce ranks 1,760 out of 8,785. Before him are George Meredith (1828), P. F. Strawson (1919), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Vidal Sassoon (1928), Jeffrey Archer (1940), and Roger Fenton (1819). After him are Donald Crisp (1882), George Peacock (1791), John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (1934), Allan Clarke (1946), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), and Nevil Maskelyne (1732).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, James Bruce ranks 28. Before him are Samuel Wallis (1728), Isabella Bird (1831), Martin Frobisher (1535), Edward Wilson (1872), Matthew Flinders (1774), and John Marshall (1748). After him are Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Douglas Mawson (1882), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), Richard Chancellor (1521), and William Smith (1790).

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