Chandos Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce (1904 - 1974)

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Biography

Chandos Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 7th Marquess of Ailesbury, also Earl of Cardigan or Lord Cardigan from 1911 to 1961, was born on 26 Jan 1904. He is the son of George William James Chandos Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of Ailesbury and Caroline Sydney Anne Madden. He usually went by his middle name of Cedric. ^[1]

Titles

He was styled as Viscount Savernake from 1904 to 1911, then Earl of Cardigan from 1911 to 1961.

On 4 Aug 1961, he succeeded as the 7th Marquess of Ailesbury, Buckinghamshire plus the following titles:

• 7th Viscount Savernake, of Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
• 9th Baron Bruce of Tottenham, Wiltshire
• 13th Earl of Cardigan
• 13th Baronet Brudenell, of Deene, co. Northampton
• 8th Earl of Ailesbury, Buckinghamshire
• 7th Earl Bruce of Whorlton, co. York
• 13th Baron Brudenell of Stonton, co. Leicester

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Marriage & Family

Cedric married, firstly, Joan Houlton Salter (-1937) on 5 Jul 1924. ^[2] They had two children:

• Sir Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury: b. 31 Mar 1926
• Lord Chandos Gerald Piers Brudenell-Bruce: b. 9 Feb 1929, d. 1980

Cedric married, secondly, Joyce Frances Warwick-Evans (1917-) on on 11 Mar 1944. They divorced in 1948. ^[2]

Cedric married, thirdly, Jean Frances Margaret Wilson on 20 Feb 1950. ^[2] They had a child:

• Lord Charles Adam Brudenell-Bruce: b. 23 Mar 1951

Career

Cedric gained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Service Corps (Territorial Army). He fought in the Second World War, where he was mentioned in despatches, captured as a POW, and escaped from captivity.

Cedric held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) in 1950. He was appointed Commander, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (C.St.J.)

Cedric held the office of County Councillor for Wiltshire in 1961.

Cedric wrote five books under the name Cardigan, and two more under the name Ailesbury:

1. Youth goes East, 1928;
2. The Amateur Pilot, 1933;
3. The Wardens of Savernake Forest, 1949;
4. I Walked Alone, 1950;
5. The Life and Loyalties of Thomas Bruce, 1951;
6. The History of Savernake Forest, 1962;
7. Setting My Watch by the Sundial, 1970.

Death & Legacy

Cedric died age 70 on 15 Jul 1974. ^[2]

Research Notes

• Wikipedia article

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} https://thepeerage.com/p2485.htm#i24849
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 12.

• Debrett, John, C. F. J. Hankinson, and Arthur G. M. Hesilrige. Debretts peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage ...: comprises information concerning persons bearing hereditary or courtesy titles, privy councillors, knights, companions of the various orders, and the collateral branches of all peers and baronets. London: Odhams Press, 1947.