AILESBURY, CHARLES BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 1 Marquess of (_3 and youngest son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783_). _b._ Seamore place Mayfair, London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19 April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry 1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to 1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (_m._ (1) 10 April 1793 Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831. _m._ (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she was _b._ 27 Oct. 1809). _d._ Tottenham park near Marlborough 4 Jany. 1856. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of Great Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany. AILESBURY, GEORGE WM. FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 2 Marquess of (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 20 Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death; summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July 1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St. Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death; P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859 to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts 25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as 8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (_m._ 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline 2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was _b._ 22 March 1813). _d._ Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany. 1878. _Baily’s Mag. iv_, 217–20 (1862) _portrait_. AILSA, ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, 2 Marquess of (_1 son of Archibald Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau. of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov. 1832_). _b._ Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep. 1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to death. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, 1 baronet). _d._ Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March 1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.