. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. to use royal livery! He took it very illto be reminded, as he frequently was, that, in reality,he was not a Brace, but a Hay, and though the heirof line, not the heir male of even that branch of thefamily which he represented. In truth the realBraces of Kinnaird, his grandmothers ancestors,were but descended from a cadet of a cadet of theroyal family of Brace, and, as it will be observed,sprung off before the family became royal, thoughnot before it had intermarried with royalty. Hismother was the daughter of James Graham, Esq. ofAirth, dean of
. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. to use royal livery! He took it very illto be reminded, as he frequently was, that, in reality,he was not a Brace, but a Hay, and though the heirof line, not the heir male of even that branch of thefamily which he represented. In truth the realBraces of Kinnaird, his grandmothers ancestors,were but descended from a cadet of a cadet of theroyal family of Brace, and, as it will be observed,sprung off before the family became royal, thoughnot before it had intermarried with royalty. Hismother was the daughter of James Graham, Esq. ofAirth, dean of the faculty of advocates, and judge ofthe high court of admiralty in Scotland—a man dis-tinguished by his abilities and respected for hispublic and private virtues. Unfortunately, thetraveller lost his mother at the early age of threeyears—almost the only worldly loss which cannot befully compensated. His father marrying a secondtime,^ had an additional family of six sons and twodaughters. In his earliest years, instead of the robust frame. JAMES BKIUCE, OF KimiAIRB -. SOU SLASGOW EBimTORGH S MUMW JAMES BRUCE. 191 and bold disposition which he possessed in manhood,Bruce was of weakly health and gentle the age of eight years a desire of giving his heir-apparent the best possible education, and perhapsalso the pain of seeing one motherless child amidstthe more fortunate offspring of a second union, in-duced his father to send him to London, to beplaced under the friendly care of his uncle. Coun-sellor Hamilton. In that agieeable situation he spent the years between eight and twelve, when hewas transferred to the public school at Harrow, thenconducted by Dr. Cox. Here he won the esteem ofhis instructors, as well as of many other individuals,by the extraordinary aptitude with which he ac-quired a knowledge of classic literature, and thesingularly sweet and amiable dispositions which healways manifested. To this reputation his weaklyhealth, and the fear that he wa
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