page_title: Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss
caption_attribution_description: English: Kinloss Effigy
context_page_description: Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss PC was a Scottish lawyer and judge.
  He was the second son of Edward Bruce of Blairhall and Alison Reid.
  In 1594 James VI sent him as ambassador to London and gave him £1,000 Scots for his expenses. With James Colville, he was sent to invite Queen Elizabeth to send a representative to the baptism of Prince Henry, discuss the matter of the Earl of Bothwell, Catholics in Scotland, and ask for the yearly sum of money that Elizabeth gave to James VI. They were to ensure the money was paid to Thomas Foulis. He was sent London for money from Elizabeth again in April 1598 and received £3,000. He interceded in a legal case for his brother, George Bruce of Carnock, whose ship had been forced to take on a group of African and Portuguese captives. He also successfully negotiated the release of Robert Ker of Cessford who was held at York by the Archbishop. On his return to Edinburgh, Bruce met with James VI in his cabinet at Holyrood Palace for four hours.
  He served as a Lord of Session from 1597 to 1603 and was created Lord Kinloss in 1602, with remainder to his heirs and assigns whatsoever.
context_section_description: Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss PC (1548 – 14 January 1611) was a Scottish lawyer and judge.
  He was the second son of Edward Bruce of Blairhall and Alison Reid. 
  In 1594 James VI sent him as ambassador to London and gave him £1,000 Scots for his expenses. With James Colville, he was sent to invite Queen Elizabeth to send a representative to the baptism of Prince Henry, discuss the matter of the Earl of Bothwell, Catholics in Scotland, and ask for the yearly sum of money that Elizabeth gave to James VI. They were to ensure the money was paid to Thomas Foulis. He was sent London for money from Elizabeth again in April 1598 and received £3,000. He interceded in a legal case for his brother, George Bruce of Carnock, whose ship had been forced to take on a group of African and Portuguese captives. He also successfully negotiated the release of Robert Ker of Cessford who was held at York by the Archbishop. On his return to Edinburgh, Bruce met with James VI in his cabinet at Holyrood Palace for four hours. 
  He served as a Lord of Session from 1597 to 1603 and was created Lord Kinloss in 1602, with remainder to his heirs and assigns whatsoever. He played an important role in James VI's succession to the throne of England, being involved in the King's secret correspondence, and accompanied the King to England on his accession in 1603. 
  Edward became an English subject, was admitted to the Privy Council,and appointed Master of the Rolls for life. He also received Whorlton Castle and its manor in 1603, which would remained in the Bruce family until the late 19th century. In June James sent him to greet Charles of Arenberg, who had arrived as the envoy from Isabella and Albert Rulers of the Netherlands to congratulate James, but had fallen ill from gout.
  In 1604, he was made Lord Bruce of Kinloss, with remainder to his heirs male. A letter from the Earl of Salisbury to the Earl of Shrewsbury written in 1608 alludes to Bruce having a grave illness.
  He died in London in January 1611. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, also named, Edward Bruce.
caption: Kinloss's tomb at the then Rolls Chapel, now part of King's College London's Maughan Library.
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