Elgin, Moray (Scottish Gaelic: Eilginn) is a royal burgh and a former parliamentary burgh in Moray, Scotland. The origin of the name is obscure, but may be derived from Eilgín, "Little Ireland."^[1]

Many other places around the world are also called Elgin, though the pronunciation is often quite different; the Scottish pronunciation is "ELG-IN" as opposed to "EL-JIN". The largest municipality of the name is Elgin, Illinois, with a current population over 100,000.

Cities

Canada

• Elgin County, Ontario
• Elgin, Quebec

South Africa

• Elgin, Western Cape

United States

• Elgin, Alabama
• Elgin, Arizona
• Elgin, Illinois
• Elgin, Iowa
• Elgin, Kansas
• Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina
• Elgin, Lancaster County, South Carolina
• Elgin, Minnesota
• Elgin, Nebraska
• Elgin, Nevada
• Elgin, North Dakota
• Elgin, Ohio
• Elgin, Oklahoma
• Elgin, Oregon
• Elgin, Pennsylvania
• Elgin, Texas

Other uses

• Elgin Baylor, former forward for the Los Angeles Lakers.
• Elgin Bridge, Singapore a bridge spanning the Singapore river just before Boat Quay.
• Lord Elgin, Canadian governor.
• Elginia - a turtle-like parareptile from Late Permian
• Elgin Marbles
• Mike Elgin, offensive guard for the New England Patriots
• Suzette Haden Elgin, Science fiction author and linguist
• The Elgin Theater, noted for showing midnight movies during the 1970s.
• Elgin National Watch Company
• Elgin Street, Hong Kong, a street in Central, Hong Kong
• The Elgin Sweeper Company, maker of street sweeping equipment.
• The Temptations One of the early names used by the pre-David Ruffin era Temptations
• The Elgins The Elgins were an American singing group for the Motown label, active from the late 1950s to 1967. Founding members Robert Fleming, Norbert McClean, and Johnny Dawson recorded for Motown as The Sensations, The Five Emeralds, and The Downbeats before adding Saundra Edwards (Mallett) and adopting the name "The Elgins" in 1962.

With Edwards on lead, the group recorded several singles for Motown from 1965 to 1967, including the minor hits "Darling Baby" (1965) and "Heaven Must Have Sent You" (1966), both written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland. The group disbanded in 1967.

References

1. ^ W.J. Watson, History of the Celtic Placenames of Scotland, 1926 (reprinted 1993 by Birlinn, Edinburgh, ISBN 1 874744 06 8) pp. 231 [1]

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