Charles Cumming-Bruce

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The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter

Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce (20 February 1790 – 1 January 1875),[1] was a Scottish Conservative politician. He was the second son of Sir Alexander Cumming-Gordon, 1st Baronet, and in 1820 married Mary Elizabeth Bruce, the only daughter of James Bruce.[2]

He served as the Member of Parliament for the Inverness Burghs constituency from 1831 to 1837 - being re-elected in 1834 with a majority of only four votes,[3] and for Elginshire and Nairnshire from 1840 to 1868.

Cumming-Bruce's only child Elizabeth Mary Cumming-Bruce married James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin.

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The grave of James Bruce of Kinnaird, Larbert Churchyard

He is commemorated on the monument to James Bruce of Kinnaird on the east face of the iron monument.

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