Family and Education
o. s. of Sir William Bruce, 1st Bt., MP [S], of Balcaskie, Fife, clerk of bills [S] 1660–81 and master of works [S] 1671–c.1680, by his 1st w. Mary, da. of Sir James Halkett of Pitfirrane, Fife, MP [S]. educ. travelled abroad (France, Low Countries). m. contr. 3 May 1687 (with £6,000 Scots), Lady Christian (d. 1710), da. and coh. of John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes [S] and wid. of James Graham, 3rd Mq. of Montrose [S], s.p. suc. fa. 1 Jan. 1710. Hist. Scot. Parl. 75, 79; Lauder of Fountainhall, Hist. Notices (Bannatyne Club, lxxxvii), 344; SRO, Kinross House mss GD29/1220, contr.
Offices Held
MP [S] Kinross-shire 1702–7.
Burgess, Glasgow 1702; hereditary sheriff, Kinross ?1702–d.
Commr. Equivalent [S] 1707–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Kinross House, Kinross.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
BRUCE, John (d. 1711)
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