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  www.brucefamily.com - Family of Bruce International, Inc. - Bruce Biographies
In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath was written by the Earls and Barons of Scotland to the Pope, in recognition of the cause of independence of Scotland from English rule.
He was a member of the House of Lords, a respected member of of the Privy Council and gentlemen of the King's Bedchamber (King Charles), Majesty's Lieutenant for the shires of Huntington, Cambridge, and Bedford, one of the commissioners of the office Earl Marshal, and Lord Chamberlain of the household.
In 1663 he was created Baron Bruce of Skelton, county York; Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, county Bedford; and earl of Ailesbury in Buckinghamshire, in the peerage of England.
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 Inter-Lace : Federation
The scene at the Federation Pavilion in Sydney's Centennial Park on 1 January 1901 as Queen Victoria's Letters Patent were read to the crowds witnessing the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia with the appointment of Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General.
Lord Hopetoun, the first Governor-General, proclaims the Commonwealth of Australia at a ceremony in Centennial Park, Sydney.
The interim Federal Ministry is sworn in with Sir Edmund Barton as Prime Minister.
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