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Family and Education
b. 26 Sept. 1656, 5th but 1st surv. s. Robert Bruce, styled. Ld. Bruce (later earl of Ailesbury) and Diana (d. 8 Apr. 1689), da. Henry Grey earl of Stamford; bro. of Robert‡ and James Bruce‡. educ. private (tutor, Joseph Arrowsmith) c.1670; travelled abroad (France) 1673-4. Ailesbury Mems. 1; Life and Loyalties, 19, 23. m. (1) 24 Aug. 1676 (with £20,000?), WSHC, Ailesbury mss 1300/277. Elizabeth (d. 12 Jan. 1697), da. of Henry Seymour, styled. Ld. Beauchamp, 4s. (3 d.v.p.), 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 27 Apr. 1700 Charlotte Jacqueline, suo jure comtesse d’Esneux [Brabant] (d. 13 July 1710), da. and h. of Louis Conrad d’Argenteau, comte d’Esneux [Brabant], 1da. d.v.p. d. 16 Dec. 1741; will 2 Mar. 1730 – 29 Dec. 1739, pr. 29 Jan. 1742. TNA, PROB 11/715.
Offices Held

Gent. of bedchamber 23 Jan. – 6 Feb. 1685, 23 Oct. 1685 – 23 Dec. 1688.

Dep. lt., Beds. 1679 – 85, Hunts. Apr. – Oct. 1685, Cambs. Apr.-Oct. 1685; CSP Dom. 1685, p. 119. ld. lt. and custos rot., Beds. 1685 – 89, Hunts. 1685 – 89; steward, honour of Ampthill 1685–1730, CSP Dom. 1671, pp. 131–2; VCH Beds. iii. 271–2. Bedford 1685 – 89, Huntingdon 1686 – 88; recorder and town clerk, Bedford 1685–9. Pearse, Schedule of the Recs. of the Corp. of Bedford (1883), 98.

Capt., ind. tp. of horse June-July 1685, Dalton, Army Lists, ii. 14. tp. of horse, Henry Mordaunt 2nd earl of Peterborough’s Regt. of Horse 1685 – 86.

Parlimentarian
BRUCE, Thomas, Lord Bruce (1656-1741), of Tottenham House, Wilts.
Associated with: Houghton House, Ampthill, Beds. (to 1698);VCH Beds. iii. 290.; Ailesbury House, St John’, Mdx. (to 1698);LCC Survey of London, xlvi. 118-20; Edward Wood, History of Clerkenwell (1865), 224.; Tottenham House, Wilts. (from 1676 to 1698);VCH Wilts., xvi. 28.; Ailesbury House, Westminster (from c. 1684 to 1698);LCC Survey of London, xxxiv. 459-60.; Place du Grand Sablon, Hôtel Ailesbury (from 1700).Cardigan, Life and Loyalties of Thomas Bruce (1951), 230-31, 298.;
Likenesses

oil on canvas by F. Harrewijn, 1738, sold at Sotheby’s 14 Apr. 2011; line engraving aft. Harrewijn, NPG D7182.

Author
Littleton, Charles
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Lords 1660-1715
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Oxford 1644
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