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Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares, ca. 1635
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) Oil on canvas.
Provenance/Ownership History
Colonel Lemotteux, Paris (by 1806; probably removed from Spain during the Peninsula War; sold
for £15,000 to Elgin); Colonel Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine,
Broomhall, Dunfermline, Fife (1806–41); Earls of Elgin and of Kincardine, Broomhall (1841–1917);
Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine, Broomhall (1917–52; sold
through Agnew, London, for $207,200 to the Metropoitan Museum of Art)
http://www.variant.randomstate.org/9texts/MarshallAnderson.html
The Battle of Bannockburn memorial stands on a raised area hemmed in on three sides by urban
development. It was the threat of this encroaching housing that compelled a national committee
led by the 10th Earl of Elgin and Kincardineshire, head of the Bruce family, to raise funds to
purchase the 58 acre site in 1930.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Alexander_Bruce%2C_9th_Earl_of_Elgin
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917) was a British
statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.
Lord Bruce (as he was known until his father's death in 1863) was born in Montreal, while his father was serving as Governor-
General of Canada. Educated at Glenalmond, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Elgin entered politics as a Liberal, serving as First
Commissioner of Works under Gladstone in 1886.
Following in his father's footsteps, Elgin was made Viceroy of India in 1894. His viceroyalty was not a particularly notable one. Elgin
himself did not enjoy the pomp and ceremony associated with the viceroyalty, and his conservative instincts were not well suited to
a time of economic and social unrest. He returned to England in 1899 and was made a Knight of the Garter.
From 1902 to 1903, Elgin was made chairman of the commission that investigated the conduct of the Second Boer War. When the
Liberals returned to power in 1905, Elgin became Secretary of State for the Colonies (with Winston Churchill as his Under-
Secretary). As colonial secretary, he pursued a conservative policy, and opposed the generous settlement of the South African
question proposed by Prime Minister Campbell-Bannerman, which was enacted more in spite of the Colonial Secretary's opposition
than due to his efforts. Elgin retired from public life in 1908, dying nine years later at the family estate in Dunfermline.
http://www.brucefamily.com/lineage.htm
He married Constance Carnegie. They had 6 sons: Edward, Robert, Alexander, David, John and Victor; and 5 daughters: Elizabeth,
Christian, Constance, Marjorie, and Rachel.
85. John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair 1924-26
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalrymple%2C_12th_Earl_of_Stair
John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair, KT, DSO, DL (1 February 1879–4 November 1961) son of the 11th Earl of Stair.
On 20 October 1904, he married Violet Evelyn Harford (a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Rosse) and they had six
children:
The Lady Jean Margaret Florence Dalrymple (1905–2001)
John Aymer Dalrymple, Viscount Dalrymple (later 13th Earl of Stair) (1906–1996)
The Lady Marion Violet Dalrymple (born 1908)
Captain The Hon. Hew North Dalrymple (born 1910)
The Hon. Andrew William Henry Dalrymple (1914–1945)
Major The Hon. Colin James Dalrymple (born 1920)
Lord Stair was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1927 and 1928.
His sister, Beatrice Susan, married 1 Jun 1908 Archibald Montgomerie, 16th Earl of Eglinton, GM Scotland 1920-21 [see above].
Oxenfoord Castle
Family Seat of the Earls of Stair
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