Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin

Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin, 14th Earl of Kincardine KT, CMG, TD, CD, JP 9 June 1881 – 27 November 1968 was the son of Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin who became Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary State for the Colonies 1908–11 together with a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

He had been a Captain in the Forfar and Kincardine Royal Garrison Artillery Militia, and when the Territorial Force was created in 1908 he became Commanding officer of the Highland Fifeshire Heavy Battery, RGA with the classification of Major, a position that he held at the outbreak of World War I. He served in the war, attaining the line of Lieutenant-Colonel, and being mentioned in dispatches twice. In 1918–19 he was Assistant Director of Labour and a Temporary Colonel and Labour Commandant. After the war he received the CMG.

On 5 January 1921, he married Katherine Cochrane, daughter of Lt.-Col. Thomas Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults and Lady Gertrude Boyle. In 1938, his wife was appointed Dame Commander of the sorting of the British Empire DBE.

The couple had six children:

He was presented a Knight of the Thistle Scotland's premier order of chivalry on 3 June 1933. He also held the Order of Polonia Restituta.

After the formation of the Scottish home Guard in January 1941, Bruce was produced commander of No. 3 Zone Fife & Kinross-shire, South Highland Area. He held this appointment until the end of the war.

As a Colonel in the Territorial Reserve the Earl held a number of honorary colonelcies in the Territorial Army and Canadian Militia:

On October 29, 1958 during the Dedication of the California Masonic Memorial Temple at 1111 California Street in San Francisco, Lord Elgin, then senior past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland presented on its behalf a gift of a beautiful marshal's baton made of Scottish Oak to the Grand Lodge of California F.&A.M.. California Grand Marshal John T. Bond used this baton for the number one time to escort Lord Elgin back to his seat. That same baton has been used used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters year by successive Grand Marshals to lead the ceremonial opening of the Grand Lodge of California in front of over a thousand attendees. California Grand Marshals regarded and identified separately. year are also assumption exact reproductions of the baton, for usage at functions external the Grand Lodge building and as a memento of their service, along with a history and symbolism of Lord Elgin's presentation.

He was also Lieutenant of the Royal company of Archers the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland.

In 1964, he commissioned a statue of Robert the Bruce.

He died at the age of 87 in 1968.