Bruce
Bruce names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bruce ROBERT, the greatest of the Kings of Scotland
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, the greatest of the Kings of Scotland, born in 1274. He was the son of the preceding. In 1296, as Earl of Carrick, he swore fealty to Edward I., and in 1297 fought on the English side against Wallace. He then joined the Scottish army , but in the same year returned to his allegiance to Edward until 1298, when he again joined the National party , and became in 1299 one of the four regents of the kingdom. In the three final campaigns, however, he resumed fidelity to Edward, and resided for some time at his court; but, learning that the King meditated putting him to death on information given by the traitor Comyn, he fled, in February, 1306, to Scotland, stabbed Comyn in a quarrel at Dumfries, assembled his vassals at Lochmaben Castle, and claimed the crown, which he received at Scone, March 27. Being twice defeated, he dismissed his troops, retired to Rathlin Island, and was supposed to be dead , when, in the spring of 1307, 07, he landed on the Carrick coast, defeated the Earl of Pembroke at Loudon Hill, and in two years had wrested nearly the whole country from the English. He then in successive years advanced into England, laying waste the country, and on June 24, 1314 , defeated at Bannockburn the English forces advancing under Edward II. to the relief of the garrison at Stirling. In 1316 he went to Ireland to the aid of his brother Edward, and, on his return in 1318 , in retaliation for inroads made during his absence, he took Hostilities continued Berwick and harried Northumberland and Yorkshire. until the defeat of Edward near Byland Abbey in 1323, and though in that year a truce was concluded for 13 years, it was speedily broken. Not until March 4, 1328, was the treaty concluded by which the independence of Scotland was fully recognized. Bruce did not long survive the completion of his work, dying at Cardross Castle on June 7, 1329. He was twice married; first to a daughter of the Earl of Mar. Mar, Isabella, by whom he had a daughter, Marjory, mother of Robert II., and then to a daughter of Aymer de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, Elizabeth, by whom he had a son, David, who succeeded him.
Bruce JAMES, an African traveler
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES, an African traveler, born in Kinnaird , Dec. 14, 1730. He received his education at Harrow and at the University of Edinburgh, and entered the wine trad trade, but having inherited his father's estate in 1758, he soon gave up business. From 1763 to 1765 he held the consulship of Algiers , and in 1765 he visited successively Tunis, Tripoli, Rhodes, Cyprus, Syria, and several parts of Asia Minor, where he made drawings of the ruins of Palmyra , Baalbec, etc. In 1768, he set out for Cairo, navigated the Nile to Syene , crossed the desert to the Red Sea, passed some months in Arabia Felix, reached Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia, in 1770 , and in the same year succeeded in reaching the sources of the Abai, then considered the main stream of the Nile. After visiting France and Italy, he returned to Scotland in 1774. His long-expected "Travels" did not appear until 1790. Bruce lost his life by an accident , April 27, 1794.
Bruce ROBERT, Earl of Carrick
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, Earl of Carrick, accompanied Edward I. to Palestine in 1269; married, in 1271, Martha Margaret, Countess of Carrick. Like his father, he resigned the Lordship of Annandale to his eldest son to avoid acknowledging the supremacy of Baliol. On the revolt of the latter Bruce fought on the English side, and after the battle of Dunbar made an unsuccessful application to Edward for the crown . He died in 1304.
Bruce THOMAS, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, an English diplomatist and antiquary, born July 27, antiquary, 27, 1766. He was successively Envoy at Brussels, Berlin, and Constantinople, and made a valuable collection of ancient sculptures at Athens, which was purchased by Parliament for the British Museum in 1816, and is known as the Elgin Marbles. He died in Paris, Nov. 14, 1841.
Bruce MICHAEL, a Scottish poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MICHAEL, a Scottish poet, born in Kinnesswood, Kinross-shire, March 27, 1746. At first a herd-boy, he succeeded in attending Edinburgh University, occupying himself in the intervals as a village schoolmaster. His poems, of which the best known is the "Elegy, " on his own approaching death, were published by the Rev. John Logan, in 1770. He died July 5, 1767.
Bruce a family name distinguished in the history of Scotland
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a family name distinguished in the history of Scotland .
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could describe Thomas Bruce's Athenian sculptures neutrally as "purchased by Parliament for the British Museum in 1816"; since Greece's formal request in 1983, and the opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in 2009, the Elgin Marbles have been one of the world's most contested cultural-property disputes, with British and Greek governments still negotiating. Robert I has also been physically recovered: in 2016 researchers at Glasgow and Liverpool John Moores universities built a facial reconstruction from a cast of the skull exhumed at Dunfermline in 1818, and the old claim that he died of leprosy is now treated as unproven. James Bruce, mocked as a fabulist in his own day, is largely vindicated as a reporter of Ethiopia, though modern scholars stress that the source he reached was the Blue Nile (the Abai), not the main Nile, and that the Jesuit Pedro Paez had described the spring in 1613. The rest of the entry — the campaign dates, Bannockburn on 24 June 1314, the 1328 treaty — still stands as written.
Written for this edition, 2026.