Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, 3rd Lord Bruce of Kinloss, of Houghton House in the parish of Maulden in Bedfordshire, was a Scottish nobleman.
Portrait by Cornelius Johnson
Effigy in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Exton, Rutland, to Anne Chichester (d.1627) (Countess of Elgin), daughter of Sir Robert Chichester.
Diana Cecil, 2nd wife of Thomas Bruce and widow of Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford. Portrait by van Dyck
The Ailesbury Mausoleum, Maulden Churchyard, Bedfordshire, built by Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, in memory of his 2nd wife Diana Cecil. One of the earliest free-standing mausoluems built in England
Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and 2nd Earl of Elgin, PC, FRS, was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1663, when he inherited his father's title as Earl of Elgin.
Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin
…half-sister of Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet, of Raleigh (1623–1667). She died on 20 March 1626/27, the day after having given birth to an only child: Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury (1626–1685), only son and heir. Secondly, on 12 November 1629, he married Lady Diana Cecil (d.26 February 1658), daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl…
Portrait by Henri Gascar
Diana Grey, Countess of Ailesbury, by Henri Gascar