Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin
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Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
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Canadian Forces Decoration
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Justice of the Peace
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(born 17 February 1924), styled Lord Bruce before 1968, is a Scottish peer
Peerage of Scotland
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Andrew Douglas Alexander Thomas Bruce, Lord Bruce was born in 1924, the eldest son of the 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine
Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin
Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin, 14th Earl of Kincardine, KT, CMG, TD, JP was the son of Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin who became Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary State for the Colonies and a director of the Royal Bank of ScotlandOn 5 January 1921, he married...
and Hon. Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane, daughter of the 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults
Baron Cochrane of Cults
Baron Cochrane of Cults, of Crawford Priory in the County of Fife, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the Liberal Unionist politician and former Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Hon. Thomas Cochrane. He was the second and youngest son of...
, and is a descendant of Robert the Bruce
Robert I of Scotland
Robert I , popularly known as Robert the Bruce , was King of Scots from March 25, 1306, until his death in 1329.His paternal ancestors were of Scoto-Norman heritage , and...
. He was educated at Eton
Eton College
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and at Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford
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. He served in the 3rd (Armoured) Bn Scots Guards
Scots Guards
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as a lieutenant
Lieutenant
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and was wounded in the break out from Normandy in August 1944.
