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BROWNING, WILLIAM, son of William Browning, Southwark, Surrey, fellmonger, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1714/5; Min. Can. 1717, 1718; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1718/9; BA 1722; MA 1725; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1725, priest 18 Dec 1726 (both Oxford); Rector of Bermondsey, Surrey, from 16 Feb 1726/7; d. 23 Dec 1740.

BROWNLOW, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Sir Richard Brownlow, Bart., Great Humby, Lincs., and Elizabeth, dau. of John Freke, Stretton [Stratton ?], Dorset; b. 26 Jun 1659; succ. father as 3rd baronet 30 Aug 1668; adm. Jun 1675 (Lady E. Cust, The Cust family, 1909, ii, 156); High Sheriff Lincolnshire 1688; MP Grantham from Jan 1688/9; m. 27 Mar 1676 Alice, eldest dau. of Richard Sherard, Lobthorpe, Lincs.; d. 16 Jul 1697.

BROXHOLME, NOEL, son of Robert Broxholme, Oakham, Rutland; b.; adm.; KS 1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1704, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Oct 1704, aged 18, Canoneer Student 23 Jul 1705-18 (void), Tutor 1710-1; BA 1709; MA 1711; migr. to University Coll., where he was one of first two Radcliffe Travelling Fellows, Jul 1715; Padua Univ., adm. 20 Dec 1716; MB and MD 1723; student, St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1709; FRCP 22 Mar 1724/5, Censor 1726, Harveian Orator 1731; one of the six physicians appointed to St. George’s Hospital at its first general board held 19 Oct 1733; Physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales, 9 Nov 1734 – c. May 1739; bequeathed £500 for the benefit of the King’s Scholars to be applied “in such manner as the two upper masters of the said school shall think fit”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Broxholme exhibition; m. 7 May 1730, Anne, widow of William Dowdeswell, Pull Court, Worcs., mother of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv), and sister of James Hammond (qv); committed suicide 8 Jul 1748. DNB.

BRUCE (or BRUES), DAVID, son of Thomas Bruce, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Prudence ---; bapt. 25 Dec 1645; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1660; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 2 Aug 1662, matr. 1663; migrated to Christ’s Coll.; BA 1666/7; ordained priest (Lincoln) 12 Mar 1667/8.

Bruce, Hon. George John Done, brother of Robert Bruce, 12th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (qv); b. 28 Mar. 1930; adm. Sept. 1943 (G); left July 1944; Byam Shaw Sch. of Drawing & Painting; a portrait painter; member Roy. Soc. of Portrait Painters 1960, hon. sec. 1970-84, vice-pres. 1985-91, pres. 1991-1994; d. 7 Apr. 2022.

BRUCE, ALEXANDER; b.; adm. 16 Feb 1810; left 1810.

BRUCE, HON. CHARLES ANDREW, brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 18 Jan 1768; adm. 5 Oct 1778; left 1782; Writer, EICS Bengal 1783; Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly, 1795; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1801 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 270); Judge of Court of Appeal, Dacca, 1806, Murshidabad 1807; Governor of Prince of Wales’s Island (Penang); m. 1st, 20 May 1795 Anna Maria, eighth dau. of Sir Charles William Blunt, Bart., EICS Bengal; m. 2nd, 20 Jan 1802 Charlotte Sophia, sister of Thomas John Dashwood (qv); d. in Penang 27 Dec 1810.

BRUCE, CHARLES THOMAS, eldest son of Hon. Thomas Charles Bruce MP, and Sarah Caroline, eldest dau. of Thomas Thornhill, Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk; grandson of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 21 Feb 1865; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; left Mar 1880; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1883; attached to Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople and Egypt, 1885-6; member, Royal Company of Archers, Scotland; went out to Flanders Sep 1915 as Commandant of a Belgian field hospital; m. 1st, 8 Jul 1897 Edith Mary, eldest dau. of Samuel Sandbach Parker, Aigburth, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 7 Jul 1914 Gwendolen Mary, eldest dau. of Robert Thomas Napier Speir DL, Burnbrae and Culdees, Perthshire; d. in London 23 Oct 1915, from enteric fever contracted in Flanders.

BRUCE, GEORGE, son of Rev. Andrew Bruce, Montrose, Scotland; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1740/1; left 1742; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1742, commoner, Canoneer Student 28 Jun 1742 - 20 Aug 1751 (void, expiry year of grace as R. Tatton from 31 Aug 1750); BA 29 Jan 1745/6; MA 1748; ordained; Rector of Tatton [sic], Cheshire 1750. [Perhaps Chaplain, 3rd Foot Guards 31 Jan 1756 – still 1773; and Rev. George Bruce, Kensington, Middlesex, will proved PCC 5 Aug 1780].

BRUCE, HON. JAMES, brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 23 Mar 1769; adm. 5 Oct 1778; KS (Capt. ) 1782; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1786, matr. 14 Jun 1786, Westminster Student from 23 Dec 1786; BA 1790; MA 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Oct 1790; chargé d’affaires, Brussels, 1793-4; MP Marlborough 1796 - Nov 1797; précis writer, Foreign Office, from Oct 1797; drowned in the river Don, near Barneby Down, while attempting to ford it on horseback, 10 Jul 1798.