Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Hon Mrs James Bruce 1930-2023

 The Hon Mrs James Bruce died 7 December, 2023, aged 93.

She was born Mary-Elizabeth Walter in 1930, daughter of Reginald Arthur Walter (1885-1965), and his wife the former Kathleen Wylie Hill (1893-1942); and married 1stly, 5 December, 1953, Brigadier Bruce Meade Hamilton, MBE (1926-1998), The Black Watch, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian Kelso Hamilton, DSO, MC, (1897-1960), The Black Watch, and his wife the former Susannah Mary Arbuthnott (1901-1983), scion of the Viscounts of Arbuthnott; and married secondly, in 2000, as his third wife, the Hon James Michael Edward Bruce, CBE (1927-2013), son of the 10th Earl of Elgin and (14th) of Kincardine, KT, CMG, TD (1881-1968), and his wife the former Hon Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane, DBE (1890-1989), Scion of the Barons Cochrane of Cults. She leaves issue from her 1st marriage, a son, Roderick Adrian (Roddy) Hamilton (born 25 Aug, 1959), and a daughter, Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton (born 22 March, 1963).

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