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unusual facts about Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet


Lord Kennet

Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet (1718–1785), Scottish advocate, legal scholar and judge


Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

The son of Robert Bruce, at one time Tory Member of Parliament for Clackmannan, he was born in Kennet in that county and educated at Loretto, Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.

John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

With the outbreak of war between England and Scotland, Comyn, his father, and his cousin, John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, crossed the border and attacked Carlisle, defended for King Edward by Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, the father of the future king.

Lord Kennet

(Edward) Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet (1879–1960), GBE, DSO, DSC & Bar, PC (20 March 1879 – 11 July 1960) was a British politician and writer

Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (1923–2009), British writer, Labour Party and SDP politician who served in numerous national and international official and unofficial capacities

Baron Kennet, of the Dene in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Marquess of Ailesbury

On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York, Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Earl of Ailesbury, in the County of Buckingham, all in the Peerage of England.


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