Adam Bruce Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
Adam Bruce
Birth Name:Adam Robert Bruce
Birth Place:Edinburgh, Scotland
Birth Date:18 January 1968
Nationality:Scottish
Education:Glenalmond College
Alma Mater:Balliol College, Oxford
University of Edinburgh
Children:2
Occupation:Solicitor and businessman.

Adam Robert Bruce (born 18 January 1968) is a Scottish solicitor, and businessman who serves as an officer of Arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon.

Education

Bruce was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1] He is the youngest son of Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin, and Victoria Usher.[2] He was educated at Glenalmond College.[1] Bruce went up to Balliol College to read history, and while at the University of Oxford he was elected as the President of the Oxford Union in 1989. He also took a law degree at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

Formerly a solicitor with McGrigors in Edinburgh, where he was Director of Public Policy, Bruce now works in the global renewable energy sector, having been UK chief executive of Airtricity and the first Chairman of RenewableUK, formerly the British Wind Energy Association.

Until 2023, he was global head of corporate affairs at Mainstream Renewable Power,[3] and from 2009 to 2015 was a director of the Friends of the Supergrid.[4] In October 2012, he was appointed chairman of the UK Government's Offshore Wind Programme Board.[5] He is currently a vice-Chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).[6]

In 2008, Bruce was appointed an officer of arms at the Lyon Court as Unicorn Pursuivant. In April 2012, he was promoted to the position of Marchmont Herald. He was previously Finlaggan Pursuivant (private officer of arms to the Clan Donald), in which role he was installed in 2005 by Godfrey Lord MacDonald. This marked a reinstatement of the traditional MacDonald heraldic role after a break of 510 years.[7]

Bruce is also a Trustee of the St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry and a former Member of the Council of the Society of Writers to HM Signet.[8]

He sits on a number of advisory bodies, including the Development Board of Oxford University's Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Division. He became a Trustee of National Museums Scotland in April 2017 and his term of appointment runs until September 2023.[9]

In 2016, Bruce narrated a three-part series for UCV TV of Chile on the life of his ancestor Admiral Lord Cochrane.[10]

Family

On 17 May 2003, he married Maria Sofia Giovanna Rosa Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, a younger daughter of the 13th Prince of Belmonte. They live in Edinburgh and have two children.[2]

Arms

Adam Bruce
Notes:Mr Bruce's Arms are a cadet version of the chiefly Arms of the Name of Bruce, with a gold border for a second son using the Stoddart system. The undifferenced arms belong to the Chief of the Name, the Earl of Elgin, Mr Bruce's father.[11]
Year Adopted:Matriculated by him in 1987
Crest:Above the shield is placed an Helm befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Or, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a lion statant quardant tail extended Azure armed and langued Gules.
Escutcheon:Or, a saltire and chief Gules, on a canton Argent a lion rampant Azure armed and langued of the Second, all within a bordure of the First.
Motto:ADSUMUS

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Energy boss with the wind in his sails . Terry . Macalister . . 30 May 2008 . 19 June 2016.
  2. Web site: Cracroft's Peerage . 21 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012051518/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Elgin1633.htm#ELGIN_1633_11 . 12 October 2012 . live . dmy-all .
  3. http://www.mainstreamrp.com Mainstream website
  4. http://friendsofthesupergrid.eu Friends of the Supergrid
  5. http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn12_126/pn12_126.aspx DECC Offshore Wind Programme Board announcement October 2012
  6. http://www.gwec.net GWEC website
  7. Web site: Finlaggan Installation . 2007-01-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070101172600/http://www.scotsheraldry.com/Scotsheraldry/Finlaggan.htm . 2007-01-01 . Web site: Newspage 3 . 2007-01-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929152701/http://www.clandonaldchiefs.org.uk/news/newspage3.htm . 2007-09-29 . Installation of Clan Donald Officer of Arms by Gordon Casely
  8. Web site: Office holders. 2021-07-13. wssociety. en-GB.
  9. Web site: Adam Bruce. 2021-07-13. National Museums Scotland. en.
  10. Cochrane, capitan de mar y Guerra
  11. Web site: Marchmont . www.courtofthelordlyon.scot . en . 2018-11-20.