Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

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EARLS OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
Charles, 5th Earl of Elgin,
and 9th Earl of Kincardine, left 4 sons and I
daughter, "Charlotte," married to Sir Philiip
Durham, Admiral and G. C. B. 2 daughters,
Janet and Rachael, died young.
Married, 1759, Martha, daughter of Thomas
White, Banker in London, afterwards appointed
governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales.
Martha, Lady Elgin, died at Twickenham, 21st
June 1810, much regretted.
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I. William Ro-
bert, 6th Earl of
Elgin, 10th Earl
of Kincardine,
died ante 1773,
s. p.
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2. Thomas, 3. Charles Andrew, a Judge in India, mar-
7th Earl of ried, 1st, Anna Maria, daughter of Sir C.
Elgin, nth Blount; 2d, Charlotte Sophia, daughter of
Earl of Kin- Thomas Dashwood ; and left 2 sons and I
cardine. daughter.
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4. James, Precis Writer
to Lord Grenville, was
drowned in crossing a
river in Yorkshire, astat.
28.
Charles Dash-
wood, married the
Hon. Harriet Pitt,
daughter of Lord
Rivers. Died s. p. ,
having succeeded
to estates by the
bequest of Sir
Robert Preston,
and taken that
Brudenell,
died s.p.
A.D. 1828.
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Louisa, mar-
ried Sir Wil-
liam Geary.
I daughter,
Louisa Geary.
1790.
179-.
1795-
July
1799.
Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin and eleventh Earl of Kincardine, Lord
Bruce of Kinloss and Lord Bruce of Torrie, succeeded his brother, " William
Robert," at an early age. He was educated at Harrow and Westminster, and
at the University of St Andrews. He afterwards spent two years in Paris under
a professor of public law, and a considerable time in Germany in the prosecu-
tion of military studies.
His first commission in the Guards is dated in 1785.
On the 25th of October 1809, he was gazetted a major-general.
He was sent on a special mission to the Emperor Leopold, whom he accom-
panied the following year on a tour through his Italian States.
He was appointed Minister to the Netherlands, and afterwards to the Court
of the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, whence he accompanied the Prussian army in
its first campaigns against revolutionary France. He was next attached to the
Austrian army, and remained with it until the final evacuation of the Low
Countries in 1794.
Lord Elgin was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of Berlin. On his return to England he was sworn of the Privy
Council, and immediately after was sent Ambassador Extraordinary and Min-
ister Plenipotentiary to the Porte, where he continued until the French were
driven out of Egypt, on which occasion his Lordship was invested with the
Turkish order of the Crescent.
Whilst at Constantinople he learnt that the French were about to despoil
several of the temples of Greece of their sculptures, and to send them to Paris,