Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
- Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1656 – December 16 1741) was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin and Lady Diana Grey. His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
Lord Bruce, as he was styled from 1663 to 1685, was M.P. for Marlborough between 1679 and 1681 and M.P. for Wiltshire in 1685. From 1685, when he inherited the earldom, to 1688, he was a Lord of the Bedchamber, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire (the latter in the absence of the Earl of Sandwich) and was a Page of Honour, at the coronation of King James II on 23 April 1685.
He married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Seymour,[cite book|last=Burke|first=Bernard |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire:|publisher=Harrison|date=1866|pages=p81|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ysWkXKSrpIC&pg=PA81&dq=%22Thomas+Bruce%22+%223rd+Earl+of+Elgin%22&as_brr=3&ei=etukSIuNGJD0jgHx87D7BA] granddaughter of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, on 31 August 1676. They had two children:]
*Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin (1682–1747)
*Hon. Elizabeth Bruce (1689–1745), married George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan and had issue.He married, secondly, Charlotte d'Argenteau, comtesse d'Esneux,
*Hon. Marie Thérèse Bruce (1704–1736), married Maximilian Emmanuel, Prince Maximillian von Horn of Hornes and had issue.
He was one of only four peers who continued to support James II after the Prince of Orange embarked for England. On 18 December 1688 he accompanied King James to Rochester when he fled London. In May 1695, Lord Elgin was accused of having conspired to plan the restoration of King James II and in February 1696 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London,[cite book|last=Low|first=Sidney |title=The Dictionary of English History|publisher=Cassell|date=1884|pages=p22|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=y45JAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA22&dq=%22Thomas+Bruce%22+%223rd+Earl+of+Elgin%22&as_brr=3&ei=etukSIuNGJD0jgHx87D7BA#PPA22,M1] but admitted to bail a year later and allowed to leave England for Brussels, where he died and was buried.]Notes
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