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*Henderson, T. F., and Victor Stater. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3757 "Bruce, Robert, second earl of Elgin and first earl of Ailesbury (bap. 1626, d. 1685), nobleman."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.  
 
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Robert BRUCE, 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1626-85

Biographical Note

Born at St Bartholomew-the-Less, London, son of Thomas Bruce. Lord lieutenant of Huntingdonshire in 1681; of Cambridgeshire 1685. Appointed Lord Chamberlain of the household in 1685.

Books

Noted as a collector of manuscripts and antiquities. Library auctioned in London, 19.5.1690 (1275 lots). His will has no explicit mention of books; they would have been part of the residue of his estate, goods and chattels left to his wife, to dispose of amongst their children as she thought fit.

Sources

Bibliotheca curiosa. Sive catalogus librorum in plurimis facultatibus, [London, 1690], ESTC r175346.