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was bur. at Mountain Ash, co. Glamorgan.[1] His widow d. at Pen Pole House, Shirehampton, co. Gloucester, 27, and was bur. 30 Apr. 1897, at Mountain Ash afsd., aged 70. Will pr. at £3,209. | |
| II. 1895. | 2. Henry Campbell (Bruce), Baron Aberdare of Duffryn, 1st s. and h., by 1st wife, b. 19 June 1851, at Duffryn; ed. at Rugby, and at Berlin; Major 3rd Vol. Batt. Welsh Reg. A Liberal in politics. He m., 10 Feb. 1880, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Constance Mary, only da. of Hamilton Beckett, by Sophia Clarence, da. and coh. of John Singleton (Copley), Baron Lyndhurst. |
| [Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, 1st. s. and h. ap., b. 25 May 1881; Capt. 3rd Batt. Royal Scots; m., 11 Oct. 1906, in London, "Camilla Antoinette, da. of the late Reynold Clifford, of independent means," according to the register of marriage.[2]] | |
| Family Estates.—These, in 1883, consisted of 3,950 acres in co. Glamorgan, worth £12,113 a year. Principal Residence.—Duffryn, near Aberdare, co. Glamorgan. | |
ABERDEEN (County of)
| EARLDOM [S.] I. 1682. |
1. Sir George Gordon, of Haddo, co. Aberdeen, Bart. [S.], 2nd s. of Sir John G., 1st Bart. [S.], by Mary, da. of William Forbes, of Tolquhoun, b. 3 Oct. 1637; suc. his eldest br. in the Baronetcy and estate of Haddo in 1665. He became an Advocate 7 Feb. 1668, M.P. for co. Aberdeen 1669–74, 1678, and 1681–2. P.C. 1678, one of the Lords of Session 1 June 1680, President 1 Nov. 1681, and having been made High Chancellor [S.] 1 May 1682, was, on 30 Nov. 1682, cr. LORD HADDO, METHLICK, TARVES, and KELLIE, VISCOUNT OF FORMARTINE, and EARL OF ABERDEEN[3] [S.]. In June 1684 he resigned office, and though at the Revolution he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William III, he took it subsequently to Queen Anne. He m. (cont. 1671) Anne, 1st da. of George Lockhart, of Torbrecks, by |
- ↑ An amiable man of fine presence and popular in society, he was an industrious, but not a gifted nor a successful, politician. He was one of the few Peers who supported Gladstone when that Minister gave way to the Irish demand for Home Rule. V.G.
- ↑ No evidence is forthcoming as to the occupation habitat or nationality of Mr. Clifford, only an assurance as to his "means." The lady was a "Gibson girl" on the Gaiety stage, i.e. a young woman chosen because her features recalled the type of female beauty which the American artist Gibson affects; a correspondent, though on what authority I know not, writes that, previously, she was a Scandinavian steerage emigrant to Nova Scotia, and, he believes, then known as "Ottersen." V.G.
- ↑ The patent is printed at length in the appendix to Crawfurd's Lives of Officers of State. It sets forth the death of the grantee's father in the Royal cause, his own "splendid abilities" &c.
