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to act on behalf of his wife, Catherine, and their daughters. The move was successful in helping protect Murray's ownership of the estate by making sequestration by the
Parliamentarians both more difficult and, given Elgin's influential position with the Scottish
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later granted him nearby
Houghton Park to preserve game for the royal hunt, but persistent hunting and hawking by the local Conquest family forced the King's subsequent intervention.
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England
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Magdalene Clerk. He succeeded to the Scottish peerage title as 3rd Lord Bruce of Kinloss in August 1613, aged 13, on the death of his elder brother,
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was a notable
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Thomas Bruce died on 21 December 1663 at the age of 64, and was succeeded by his son and heir
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identified it as one of the first two freestanding mausoleums in
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of Thomas and the estates to his mother Magdalene, until he came of age at 21.
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Born in Edinburgh in 1599, Thomas Bruce was the second son of
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Helms, M. W.; Naylor, Leonard (1983). Henning, B.D. (ed.).
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Ham House and its owners through five centuries 1610-2006
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690
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Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and 2nd Earl of Elgin
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Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and 2nd Earl of Elgin
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Thomas Bruce continued in royal favour. He was created
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Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, 1st Earl of Ailesbury
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Cokayne, George Edward; Gibbs, Vicary, eds. (1912).
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Diana Cecil, 2nd wife of Thomas Bruce and widow of
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441:(1540–1613), and a co-heiress of her brother
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447:Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet, of Raleigh
443:John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton
439:John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton
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380:, appointed Bruce as principal trustee of
270:Mary Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke
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178:(2 December 1599 – 21 December 1663), of
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888:Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1886).
239:Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire
208:Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset
632:. Institute of Historical Research.
595:HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst
453:Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury
1027:Alumni of the University of Oxford
800:. Richmond Local History Society.
649:The Journey from Chester to London
630:A History of the County of Bedford
517:. Thomas built in her memory, the
503:Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford
497:(d.26 February 1658), daughter of
467:Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford
366:William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart
284:During King Charles I's period of
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499:William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter
901:Dictionary of National Biography
597:, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 156.
172:Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin,
570:"Jervaulx Abbey Estate Records"
455:(1626–1685), only son and heir.
891:"Bruce, Robert (d.1685)"
418:Church of St Peter and St Paul
244:In 1624, King James I granted
222:in 1603. The King granted the
210:. The family estates included
204:Edward Bruce, 2nd Lord Kinloss
200:Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss
154:Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss
57:Edward Bruce, 2nd Lord Kinloss
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1057:People from Houghton Conquest
745:Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003).
626:"Parishes: Houghton Conquest"
392:Bruce was later described by
376:and husband of his relative,
341:, a role he held until 1647.
295:The year after performing in
409:Thomas Bruce married twice:
218:given to his father by King
1032:17th-century Scottish peers
624:Page, William, ed. (1912).
608:"History of Houghton House"
389:, politically undesirable.
190:, was a Scottish nobleman.
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268:styles for
258:Inigo Jones
254:John Thorpe
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554:References
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280:New titles
194:Early life
93:1599-12-02
382:Ham House
374:Charles I
345:Civil War
333:, in the
266:Classical
130:Spouse(s)
120:Residence
101:Edinburgh
63:Successor
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511:Manfield
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330:Whorlton
262:Jacobean
250:Ampthill
229:In 1614
224:wardship
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486:Maulden
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339:Byfleet
313:Windsor
260:in the
248:, near
184:Maulden
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