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Lady Elgin may refer to: Lady Elgin, the wife of the Earl of Elgin. Mary Louisa Lambton, the second wife of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin; PS Lady Elgin, a steamship named in honour of Mary Louisa Lambton
In 1624 she married Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford. He died at the siege of Breda in 1625. In 1629 she married Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin. She died on 26 February 1654. Thomas Bruce built the Ailesbury Mausoleum in her memory in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Maulden, Bedfordshire. The octagonal building was constructed over an ...
The most famous Earl was the 7th Earl, who removed and transported to Britain the so-called Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon. As well as the titles Earl of Elgin and Earl of Kincardine, Lord Elgin also holds the titles Lord Bruce of Kinloss (created 1604), Lord Bruce of Torry (1647) and Baron Elgin , of Elgin in Scotland (1849).
Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine (née Lambton; 8 May 1819 [2] – 9 March 1898) was a British aristocrat and writer. She was Vicereine of India in 1862-1863. Parents
Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, 2nd Earl of Elgin, 4th Lord Kinloss. Lord Kinloss is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.It was created in 1602 for Edward Bruce, later Master of the Rolls, with remainder to his heirs and assigns whatsoever.
Portrait of Mary Nisbet by François Gérard, 1803. Mary Hamilton Bruce, Countess of Elgin (née Nisbet; 18 April 1778 – 9 July 1855) was the first wife of British diplomat Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin during his term as Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire and one of the most influential and wealthiest heiresses of the late 18th and early 19th century.
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The only child of wealthy banker Thomas Whyte, Esq. of Kirkcaldy, Martha Whyte married Charles Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, at Edinburgh on 1 June 1759. [1] Their eight children were Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), known for the removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens; [2] Lady Martha Bruce (1760–1767); Lady Janet Bruce (1761–1767); William Bruce ...