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Born | Kinnaird, Stirlingshire, Scotland | 14 December 1730
Died | 27 April 1794 Stirlingshire, Scotland | (aged 63)
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Known for | Traced the origins of the Blue Nile |
Notable work | Travels (1790) |
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile from Egypt and Sudan.