Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin

Bruce, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, presenting the golden key to the Commander-in-Chief, Vice Admiral Sir Charles Gordon Ramsey, KCB, after the opening of the British Sailors Society Hostel, Rosyth, Fife.

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

Career

He had been a captain in the Forfar and Kincardine Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), and when the Territorial Force 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 World War I. He served in the war, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was mentioned in dispatches twice. In 1918–19, he was assistant director of Labour and a temporary colonel and Labour commandant. After the war, he received the CMG.

As a colonel in the Territorial Reserve, Bruce held a number of honorary colonelcies in the Territorial Army and Canadian Militia: City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers (TA). 357th Medium Regiment (Lothians), RA (TA)

He was also lieutenant of the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland.

The couple had six children: Lady Martha Veronica Bruce OBE (7 November 1921 – 22 January 2023), who became the governor of Greenock and Cornton Vale 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)

In 1964, he commissioned a statue of Robert the Bruce.

He died at the age of 87 in 1968.