Peerage Record – 6955

     Leo Casper Dickson was born in 1981.¹ He is the son of Jonathan James Dickson and Hon. Lynda Mary Kathleen Aitken.¹

     Lt.-Col. Sir John Augustus Hope of Craighall, 16th Bt. was born on 7 July 1869.² He is the son of Revered Charles Augustus Hope and Julia Sophia Barton.³ He married Hon. Mary Bruce, daughter of Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Lady Katherine Eliza Gordon, on 26 April 1910.² He died on 17 April 1924 at age 54.²
     He fought in the Boer War.³ He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Midlothian between 1912 and 1918.² He fought in the First World War, where he was wounded.³ He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Reserve of Officers, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.² He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for North Midlothian and Peebles between 1918 and 1922.¹ He succeeded as the 16th Baronet Hope, of Craighall [N.S., 1628] on 7 March 1918.² He was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1919.² He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Midlothian.²

     Raymond Hugh Edwyn Burnaby was born in 1928. He was the son of Lt.-Cdr. Hugh Edwyn Burnaby and Vilma Dorothea Todenhagen. He married Martine Francoise Legge in 1956.² He died on 11 February 2000.²

     Vilma Dorothea Todenhagen married Lt.-Cdr. Hugh Edwyn Burnaby, son of Algernon Edwyn Burnaby and Hon. Sybil Cholmondeley, in 1923.
     Her married name became Burnaby.

     Hon. Jean Hamilton Bruce was born on 18 March 1879.¹ She was the daughter of Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Lady Katherine Eliza Gordon.¹ She died on 15 January 1939 at age 59, unmarried.¹
     She held the office of Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Mary between 1935 and 1938.¹ She held the office of Extra Woman of the Bedchamber between 1938 and 1939.¹

     George Forestier Walker was born on 31 May 1898.¹ He was the son of Maj.-Gen. Sir George Townshend Forestier Walker and Lady Mary Maud Diana Liddell.² He died on 31 May 1898.¹

     Hon. Sybil Cholmondeley was born on 29 December 1871.¹ She was the daughter of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere of Vale Royal and Augusta Emily Seymour.¹ She married Algernon Edwyn Burnaby, son of Maj.-Gen. Edwyn Sherard Burnaby and Louisa Julia Mary Dixie, on 13 April 1896.¹ She and Algernon Edwyn Burnaby were divorced in 1902.¹ She died on 26 May 1911 at age 39 at London, England^G, after falling out of her window two weeks earlier (possibly an attempt at suicide).²
     Her married name became Burnaby.

     Hon. Victoria Alexandrina Katherine Bruce was born on 13 September 1898.¹ She was the daughter of Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Lady Katherine Eliza Gordon.¹ She died on 25 November 1951 at age 53, unmarried.¹
     She was a probation officer for the London Juvenile Courts between 1931 and 1937.¹ She was Deputy-Governor of the Borstal Institute between 1937 and 1940.¹ She was Deputy-Governor of Manchester Prison between 1940 and 1943.¹ She was Governor of the Borstal Institute between 1943 and 1946.¹ She was Governor of Duke Street Prision, Glasgow between 1946 and 1951.¹

     Hon. George John Done Bruce was born on 28 March 1930.¹ He is the son of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done.¹
     He was educated at Westminster School, Westminster, London, England^G.¹ He was educated at Byam Shaw School of the Arts, London, England^G.¹ He held the office of President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters between 1991 and 1994.¹ He lived in 1999 at 6 Pembroke Walk, London, England^G.¹

     Hon. Laetitia Mary Bruce was born on 29 December 1920.¹ She was the daughter of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done.¹ She married Ian Metcalfe Telfer, son of John Telfer, on 8 July 1955.¹ She died on 12 November 2011 at age 90.²
     She graduated from St. Andrew’s University, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland^G, in 1946 with a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.)¹ She graduated from St. Andrew’s University, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland^G, in 1946 with a Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.)¹ From 8 July 1955, her married name became Telfer.¹ She lived in 1999 at 5 Ruthven Court, Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England^G.¹