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unusual facts about Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin


Constance Babington Smith

Her mother, born Lady Elizabeth Bruce, was the daughter of the 9th Earl of Elgin, making Constance a granddaughter of a Viceroy of India and a great-great-granddaughter of the man who bought the Elgin Marbles.


Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

After Wolseley, Evelyn Wood and Roberts - all of whom had seen the future of cavalry as being for use as mounted infantry only - had retired the traditional view was reestablished as French and his protégé Major-General Haig rose to the top of the army.


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