Elgin Ralston Lovell Gould (1860–1915) was a Canadian social scientist, educator, and lacrosse coach.

[1] He spent some time working as an assistant to statistician Carroll D. Wright at the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.[1] Gould received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1886.

[2] One of their sons, Erl Clinton Barker Gould, was an original member of the First Yale Unit prior to World War I.

[1] He was also a founder of the Citizens Union, a government watchdog organization established to oppose the Tammany Hall political machine.

[8] He suggested that entrepreneurs build working-class housing outside of the cities, where commuters would travel by streetcar, an emerging form of transportation at the time.