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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, 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, 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.

BRUCE, JOHN, younger son of Rev. John Collingwood Bruce LLD FSA, Head Master, Percy Street Academy, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Charlotte, dau. of Tobias Gainsford, Gerrard’s Cross, Bucks.; b. 17 Oct 1855; adm. (G) 24 Jan 1868; left May 1873; a mining engineer; manager, Grinkle Ironstone Mines, 1887-1914; JP Yorkshire, North Riding, 1918; MICE 6 Dec 1892; m. 1 Sep 1887 Florence Emma, third dau. of William Martin Flegg, Belsize Square, South Hampstead, Middlesex, solicitor.

Bruce, Nigel Mitchell, son of Capt. Kenneth Mervyn Bruce DSO RN, and Madeleine Amy, d. of Henry W. Birks; b. 3 Mar. 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (H); left July 1925; RM 1940-6 (Maj.); asst Milit. Sec. (RM) Admiralty 1944-6; JP (Somerset); dir. Imp. Tobacco Co.; m. 19 Sept. 1933 Rosemary Alison, d. of Colin Parbury of Egham, Surrey; d. 13 Feb. 1968.

BRUCE, ROBERT; b. 1 Sep 1810; adm. 1 Feb 1821 (Stelfox's)

Bruce, Robert, 12th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (de facto 8th Baron), elder son of George John Gordon, de facto 7th Baron, 11th but for the Attainder, and Dorothy, d. of Richard Henry Done of Salterswell, Cheshire; b. 6 Jan. 1927; adm. Nov. 1940 (G); left July 1945; RN 1945-8 (ldg radio electrician’s mate); Faraday House, Dip. 1951; English Electric Co., UK 1952-7, Madras 1957-60, dir. and gen. man. India 1960-4, gen. man. Liverpool 1965-6; dir. and gen. man. D. Napier & Sons 1966-8; succ. father as 12th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (S) 4 June 1967; FIEE CEng 1968; dir. Bank of Scotland 1968-91, Dep. Governor 1977-91; chmn. Viking Oil 1971-80; dir. Scottish Invest. Trust 1971-97; chmn. Scottish Arts Council 1971-80; Forestry Commissioner 1971-4; chmn. NWS Bank 1978-91; dir. William Lawson Distillers 1984-97; chmn. Cappella Nova 1988-2009; office-holder in other companies and arts organisations; FRS (Ed) 1986; Chancellor, Stirling Univ. 1988-98; Vice-Lieut., Clackmannan 1995-2001; m. 1st, 30 Oct. 1971 Jennifer Ellis Brittain-Catlin, formerly wife of John Edward Jocelyn Brittain-Catlin (qv), and d. of Ellis Manasseh; 2nd, 29 Aug. 1993 Janet Morgan CBE DPhil, political historian, d, of Frank Morgan; d. 2019

BRUCE, THOMAS, 7TH EARL OF ELGIN AND 11TH EARL OF KINCARDINE (S), second son of Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine (S), and Martha, dau. of Thomas Whyte, London, banker; b. 20 Jul 1766; succ. elder brother as 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S), 15 Jul 1771; adm. 5 Oct 1778, having previously been at Harrow Sch.; left 1782; St. Andrews Univ.; Univ. Paris; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards, 6 Apr 1785; Capt., 65th Foot, 9 May 1789; Maj., local rank on continent, 8 May 1793; Lieut. -Col., Elgin’s Fencible Infantry, 28 Nov 1794-1802, and also of a second Regt. Fencible Infantry, which he raised, 17 Apr 1795-1802; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802; Maj. -Gen., 25 Oct 1809; Lieut. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; Gen., 10 Jan 1837; a Scottish Representative Peer 1790-1807, 1820-41; British Envoy on special mission to Vienna 1790-1; Envoy to Brussels, 18 Aug 1792-4; Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, 15 Aug 1795-8; Ambassador to Constantinople, 13 Apr 1799- Jan 1803; Privy Councillor 3 Jul 1799; while in Constantinople employed agents to acquire for him the Elgin Marbles (purchased from him by the British Government in 1816 and deposited in the British Museum); while on way home to Britain from Turkey, detained in France as prisoner of war May 1803- Jun 1806; m. 1st, 11 Mar 1799 Mary, only child of William Nisbet MP, Dirleton, Haddingtonshire; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1810 Elizabeth, youngest dau. of James Townshend Oswald MP, Dunnikier, Fifeshire; d. at Paris 14 Nov 1841. DNB.