The Lady Martha Veronica Bruce, OBE, who died 22 January, 2023, aged 101, was a scion of the Earls of Elgin & Kincardine.
Lady Martha was sometime a Lady-in-waiting to HRH The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood.
She was born 7 November, 1921, the eldest daughter of the 10th Earl of Elgin, KT, CMG (1881-1968), assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies 1905-08; CMG 1919; Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1921-72; Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1925 and 1926; Knight of the Thistle 1933; Lord Lieutenant of Fife 1935-65; President, Empire Exhibition Glasgow 1938, by his wife the former Hon Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane, DBE (died 1989).
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