The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

THE KINLOSS PEERAGE.

This was the claim of Richard Plantagenet Duke
of Buckingham and Chandos, to the title and dig-
nity of Lord Kinloss in the peerage of Scotland.
Mr. Fleming, Q.C., and Mr. Burdon appeared
for the claimant ; the Lord-Advocate on behalf of
the Crown ; and Mr. Bruce for the guardians of
the infant Lord Elgin.
The peerage was stated on behalf of the claimant
to have been created in 1601 by King James VI. in
the person of Edward Bruce. The claimant claimed
through Lady Mary Bruce, the third child of
Charles Bruce, the sixth Lord of Kinloss and fourth

of Elgin.
When the case was called on,
Mr. Brace applied, on behalf cf the guardians of
the infant Earl of Elgin, that the further hearicg
of the claim should be postponed until next session,
on the ground that time was regaire.l to produce
further evidence to establish the claim of Lord Elgin
to the title of Lord Bruce of Kinloss under a patent
dated 1604.
The Lord Chancellor said it was evident that
two different titles were claimed under two diffe-
rent patents, and therefore moved that the coun-
sel for the claimant be permitted to sum up the
evidence.
Mr. Fleming then proceeded to sum up the evi-
lence on behalf of the plaintiff. The evidence which

had been laid before their lordships proved that E
ward Bruce was created a peer and lord of the Par-
liament of Scotland by the title of Lord Kinloss, to
hold to him and his heirs and assigns, Feb. 2, 1601.
Edward Lord Kinloss, who was a Lord of Session
in Scotland, accompanied King James to England
on his Majesty's accession to the English throne,
and his attendance as a Lord of Session was in con-
sequence excused. Ile was naturalised in England
by an Act of Parliament passed in the second of
James 1., and obtained a grant of the dignity of
Lord Bruce of Kinloss, to hold to him and the heirs
male of his body, when failing to his heirs male
general, dated 1604. In 1608 a new charter of
the lands of Kinloss was granted to him and to
the heirs male of his body, when failing to his
nearest heirs and assigns whomsoever. He died

in January, 1610, leaving two sons—Edward,
who succeeded his father, and d:ei without issue
in 1613, and Thomas, who succeeded his brother,
and sat by proxy in the Parliament of Scotland

in 1621 and 1633. He was created Earl of Elgin
and Lord Bruce of Kinloss in the latter year, and
was created Lord Bruce of Whorleton in 1641. He
was succeeded by his only son, Robert Bruce, who
sat as Lord Bruce of Whorleton in the English
Parliament. He was created Earl of Aylesbury in
the Peerage of England in 1665, and had eight sons,
if whom Edward, the eldest, died unmarried in the
17th year of his age. Robert, Charles, Henry, Ber-
nard, and James died in infancy, and without issue.
rhomas, the only surviving son and heir apparent
of his father, succeeded his father in 1685, and was
I succeeded by his only surviving son Charles, whose
only son, Robert, died without issue. In the lifetime
of his grandfather, in 1738. In 1746 Charles Earl
of Aylesbury and Elgin was created Lord Bruce of
Tottenham, with a limitation in default of issue
male of his own body to his nephew Thomas Bruce
Brudenell, a younger son of his sister Elizabeth,
Countess of Cardigan, and the heirs male of his
body. Thomas Bruce Brudenell succeeded his
uncle as Lord Bruce of Tottenham. Charles, how-
ever, left surviving him his grandson, the son
of his eldest daughter Mary, and Elizabeth and
Mary (his daughter by a second marriage)
his co-heirs, and on his death without issue
male the issue male of Edward, the first Lord
of Kinloss became extinct, and the dignity of
Earl of Elgin, which had been granted to his sou
Thomas, the third Lord KillloB3, and his heirs male
devolved on Charles Earl of Kincardine, then heir
male of the body of Sir George Bruce, the brotber
of Edward, the first Lord Kinloss. Lady Elizabeth
Bruce, the second daughter and co-heir of Charles
Earl of Aylesbury and Elgin, married the Hon.
Benjamin Bathurst, and died without issue in 1771.
Lady Mary Bruce, his third daughter, married
Charles Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and died
without issue in 1796. Mary, his eldest daughter,
married Henry Marquis of Carnarvon, then the son
1
and heir apparent of James Duke of Chan los, and
lied in 1738, leaving an only son, James Lord

Wilton, who succeeded his father as Duke of Chan -
los in 1771. Ile married twice, and had no issue
by his first wife; but by his second wife he had an
only daughter, Anna, who married, in 1796, Richard
Grenville Nugent Temple, who succeeded his father
as Marquis of Buckingham in 1813, and who was
created Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1822,
and she died leaving an only son, Richard Planta-
genet, the grandfather of the claimant.
At the conclusion of the learned counsel's ad-
dress, the further hearing was adjourned.

BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, EUSTON-ROAD,
LONDoN.—Health secured by Morison's Vegetable Universal
Medicines. Read the works of James Morison, the Ilygelst. No
Vaccination.—CAdverti6eniontj