James Bruce (farmer)

James Michael Edward Bruce CBE JP (26 August 1927 – 22 April 2013), was a Scottish farmer, forester, and the founding chairman of Scottish Woodlands.

[1] James Bruce was born in August 1927 in Fife, the fourth child and second son of Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin.

[1] He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served in the Scots Guards.

[1] In 1950, Bruce married (Margaret) Jean Coats at Glen Tanar, Aboyne, the daughter of Thomas Coats, 2nd Baron Glentanar.

[1] Bruce lived at Balmanno Castle from the 1950s.