Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin

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. ==Career==

He was made a Knight of the Thistle (Scotland's premier order of chivalry) on 3 June 1933. He also held the Order of Polonia Restituta. 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. ==Personal life==

On 5 January 1921, he married the Hon. Katherine Cochrane, daughter of Lt.-Col. Thomas Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults and Lady Gertrude Boyle. In 1938, his wife was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). 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. ==References==