Michael Bruce

(1787-1861)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bruce, Michael, 1787-1861 NRA: Bruce, Michael (1787-1861) MP Traveller LBT ID: MiBruce1861 VIAF ID: 54597397 LOC ID: n93039612	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1861-11-05
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Educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; he was the companion of Lady Hester Stanhope in her eastern travels, 1810-13, assisted in the escape of Count Lavalette from France, and was MP for Ilchester (1830-31).
REFERENCES TO Michael Bruce: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 March 1823 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 February 1824 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 12 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1810 Found 2: ¶ 27 ¶ 37 Life of Byron: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 13 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (23 January 1830) 53-55 Found 1: ¶ 3 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 23 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1823-24