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Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin, 14th Earl of Kincardine, (9 June 1881 – 27 November 1968) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was the eldest son of

Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine (16 May 184918 January 1917), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a right-wing British Liberal politician who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899. He was appointed by Pr ...

and Lady Constance Carnegie. He was Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1908–11) and a director of the

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. He had been a captain in the Forfar and Kincardine Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), and when the

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was created in 1908 he became Commanding officer of the Highland (Fifeshire) Heavy Battery, RGA with the rank of Major, a position that he held at the outbreak of

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.''Burke's Peerage''. He served in the war, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and being

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twice. In 1918–19 he was assistant director of Labour and a Temporary Colonel and Labour Commandant. After the war he received the CMG. On 5 January 1921, he married the Hon. Katherine Cochrane, daughter of Lt.-Col.

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and Lady Gertrude Boyle. In 1938, his wife was appointed

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(DBE). The couple had six children: * Lady Martha Veronica Bruce OBE (7 November 1921 – 22 January 2023), who became governor of

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and

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prisons * Lady Jean Christian Bruce (born 12 January 1923) * Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin (born 17 February 1924) * Hon. James Michael Edward Bruce (26 August 1927 – 22 April 2013) * Lady Alison Margaret Bruce (born 17 October 1931) * Hon. Edward David Bruce (born 29 February 1936) He was made a

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(Scotland's premier order of chivalry) on 3 June 1933. He also held the

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. After the formation of the Scottish Home Guard in January 1941, Bruce was made commander of No. 3 Zone (Fife & Kinross-shire), South Highland Area. He held this appointment until the end of the war. As a Colonel in the Territorial Reserve the Earl held a number of honorary colonelcies in the Territorial Army and

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: * City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers (TA). *

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, Canadian Permanent Militia, appointed 23 November 1938. * 71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) and its successor, the 371st (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Forth), RA (TA), appointed 28 January 1939. * 357th Medium Regiment (Lothians), RA (TA) * No 948 Balloon Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force (Honorary Air Commodore) On October 29, 1958, during the Dedication of the California Masonic Memorial Temple at 1111 California Street in San Francisco, Lord Elgin, then senior past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland presented on its behalf a gift of a marshal's baton made of Scottish Oak to the Grand Lodge of California F.&A.M.. California Grand Marshal John T. Bond used this baton for the first time to escort Lord Elgin back to his seat. That same baton has been used each year by successive Grand Marshals to lead the ceremonial opening of the Grand Lodge of California in front of over a thousand attendees. California Grand Marshals each year are also given exact reproductions of the baton, for use at functions outside the Grand Lodge building and as a memento of their service, along with a history and symbolism of Lord Elgin's presentation. He was also Lieutenant of the

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the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland. In 1964, he commissioned a statue of Robert the Bruce. He died at the age of 87 in 1968.

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