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==Family== [[File:Mary Nisbet.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Portrait of Mary, Countess of Elgin]]'' by [[FranΓ§ois GΓ©rard]], 1803]] Lord Elgin married twice. On 11 March 1799, he married [[Mary Nisbet]] (1778β1855), the only child of [[William Hamilton Nisbet]], of Dirleton. They had a son and three daughters:<ref>{{cite book |title=The Annual Peerage of the British Empire |date=1827 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvuvkYy9_70C&dq=Lady+Matilda+Harriet+Bruce+September+23,+1802&pg=PA274 |access-date=27 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="burke"/><ref>"Lord Bruce died, after a lengthened illness, ... at Talaton, Devon, where he had been residing for the benefit of his health. The deceased, George Charles Constantine Lord Bruce, who was eldest son of the Earl of Elgin, by his first marriage with Miss Nisbet, which marriage was dissolved by act of Parliament in 1808, was born the 5th of April, 1800, and was brother of Lady Mary Chichester, the lady of Mr. R. A. Chichester, M.P., Lady Matilda Maxwell, and Lady Lucy Grant. The Hon. James Bruce, the noble earl's eldest son' by his second marriage, born July 20, 1810, is now heir to the family honours.{{harv|Courier|1841|page=4}}" </ref> *George Charles Constantine Bruce, Lord Bruce (5 April 1800{{snd}}1840)<ref>"Dec, 1. 1840 At Talaton, where he had been residing for the benefit of his health, aged 40, George Charles Constantine, Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Elgin. He was of Christ Church, Oxford. He died unmarried, and his half brother, born in 1816, is now heir apparent to the Earldom{{harv|Urban|1841}}"</ref> *Lady Mary Bruce (28 August 1801 β 21 December 1883) *Lady Matilda Harriet Bruce (1802 β 31 August 1857), married [[Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet]] *Hon. William Nisbet Hamilton Bruce (4 March 1804 β 20 April 1805), died in infancy *Lady Lucy Bruce (21 January 1806<ref>{{cite news |title=Births. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18060124/009/0004 |access-date=27 September 2024 |work=Morning Chronicle |date=24 January 1806}}</ref>{{snd}}4 September 1881) After her marriage to Elgin ended in divorce, Mary married Ferguson. Elgin, on 21 September 1810, married Elizabeth Oswald (1790β1860), the youngest daughter of [[James Townsend Oswald]] of Dunnikier. They had four sons and three daughters:<ref name="burke" /> * [[James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin]] (20 July 1811 β 20 November 1863), governor-in-chief of [[British North America]] and [[viceroy of India]]<ref>H. Verney Lovett, "The Indian Governments, 1858β1918", ''The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume V: The Indian Empire, 1858β1918'' (Cambridge University Press, 1932), p. 224.</ref> * [[Robert Bruce (British Army officer, born 1813)|Robert Bruce]] (15 March 1813{{snd}}27 June 1862), lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards.{{sfn|Lang|1987|loc=p. 350 footnote 1}} * Sir [[Frederick Wright-Bruce]] (14 April 1814{{snd}}19 September 1867), barrister and diplomat * Lady Charlotte Christian Bruce (9 September 1817{{Snd}}27 April 1872) * [[Lady Augusta Stanley|Lady Augusta Frederica Elizabeth Bruce]] (3 April 1822 β 1 March 1876), Lady-in-Waiting to the [[Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld|Duchess of Kent]] and Resident Bedchamber Woman to [[Queen Victoria]] * [[Thomas Charles Bruce]] (15 February 1825{{snd}}23 November 1890), MP for [[Portsmouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Portsmouth]] * Lady Frances Anne Bruce (4 October 1828 β 16 August 1894), Lady-in-Waiting to the [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia|Duchess of Edinburgh]].
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