Education
Harrow School.
Harrow School.
Between 1916 and 1918, during the First World War, he was a Second Secretary in the British Diplomatic Service. He later moved to the British Virgin Islands in the 1930s on the advice of his doctors to seek a warmer climate. He purchased an estate of approximately 230 acres on Peter Island at Little Harbour and established a small tobacco plantation.
Although many of Brudenell-Bruce"s family had enjoyed long and successful political careers in the United Kingdom, he did not stand in the subsequent general election.
However he was appointed to complete the term of Edwin H. Leonard in the 3rd District when Leonard was unable to continue in 1955, and he served the remainder of the term. He was the first, and to date the only, white person to be elected to the British Virgin Islands legislature since the restoration of democracy in 1950.
He was the grandson of Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury. They were subsequently divorced 1925.
He died on 13 February 1960 in the British Virgin Islands at the age of 74.
He was a descendant of King Henry VII.
Subsequently he was elected as a member of First Legislative Council following the reinstroduction of democracy in 1950.
