Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, helped fund the taking of the Parthenon sculptures. Her divorce from Lord Elgin may have contributed to his need to sell them.

MY LORD: I have the honor to inform your lordships that their Excellencies the Earl of ELGIN and Baron GROS, finding it necessary to delay their departure from Peking for some days, Sir HOPE GRANT ...

FRAYER: Apparently because of that legal permission Lord Elgin got from the Ottomans more than 200 years ago. This is a long-running debate, but it turned into a diplomatic spat today.

Tory former minister Ed Vaizey says 'deal is within reach' as he chairs new body devoted to return Elgin Marbles to Greece. The Ancient Greek marvels were taken by Lord Elgin between 1801 and 1812 ...

Lord Elgin insisted he had permission to remove the sculptures from the Ottoman Empire, which controlled Athens at the time. But the original letter giving him permission has been lost and the ...

Mr Mitsotakis – and Greek leaders for the last 150 years – has insisted that Lord Elgin, a British aristocrat, stole the set ...

The debate surrounding the rightful place of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Acropolis, the site of the ancient complex of temples that overlooks Athens, by agents of Lord Elgin ...