Lady Martha Bruce
Lieutenant-Colonel Lady Martha Veronica Bruce OBE TD DL (7 Nọvemba 1921 – 22 Jenụarị 2023) bụ onye omeiwu Britain, gọvanọ ụlọ mkpọrọ na onye uwe ojii Royal Army Corps nke ụmụ nwanyị.
Ndụ mbụ na ezinụlọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Bruce na 7 Nọvemba 1921 na Limekilns, Fife, ọ bụ nwa mbụ n'ime ụmụ isii nke Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin na 14th Earl of Kincardine, onyeisi Clan Bruce, na Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane. A zụlitere ya n'oche ezinụlọ, Broomhall House, na nso Limekilns. Mgbe ọ bụ nwata, nne na nna ya na Duke na Duchess nke York na-anabata King George V na Queen Mary na Broomhall. Mgbe nleta a gasịrị, ndị ọchịchị ụmụaka Bruce, Marion Crawford, gara ọrụ maka Yorks, na-ebuli ọdịnihu Queen Elizabeth II.[1] Ụmụnne ya ndị tọrọ gụnyere Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin na 15th Earl of Kincardine, na Hon. James Bruce.
Bruce gụrụ akwụkwọ na Downham School, ebe ọ bụ onye isi nwanyị. Mgbe ọ hapụsịrị Downham, ọ gara nkuzi ịgba egwú na omume na ụlọ akwụkwọ Madame Vacani na Knightsbridge iji kwadebe maka oge ọ na-apụta.[1] Ya na nwanne ya nwanyị nwere bọọlụ debutante na Claridge.[2]
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, Lady Martha sonyeere Auxiliary Territorial Service na 1941.[1][3] O mechara sonye na batrị na-egbochi ụgbọelu na-echebe London n'oge Blitz. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, ọ gara n'ihu na-achịkwa WRAC Battalion na-akwado 51st (Highland) Division na Perth n'afọ ndị 1960, na-arịgo na ọkwa nke lieutenant-colonel.[2][4]
Na Mee 1949, ọ jere ozi dị ka nwa agbọghọ nsọpụrụ n'oge ọnụnọ Duke na Duchess nke Gloucester n'obí nke Holyroodhouse n'oge Duke dị ka Lord High Commissioner na General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Ọ bụkwa nwa obere oge na-echere Princess Royal na 1965.
N'afọ 1968, mgbe ọ hapụsịrị ndị agha, ọ sonyeere ọrụ ụlọ mkpọrọ Scotland, nke mbụ dị ka osote gọvanọ nke HM Prison Greenock. Mgbe HM Prison Cornton Vale meghere na 1975 ọ ghọrọ gọvanọ mbụ ya. [2] Ọ lara ezumike nká na 1983. [5] Ọ laghachiri na Cornton Vale na 2015 maka ncheta afọ 40 ya, na-akụ osisi iji mee emume ahụ.[2]
Bruce nọgidere na-enwe mmasị n'ụlọ mkpọrọ ma na-arụsi ọrụ ike na ọrụ ebere, karịsịa ngalaba Perth na Kinross nke SSAFA. A họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye osote onye isi oche nke Fife na 1987.[1] Iji mee akara ụbọchị ọmụmụ 100th ya na 2021, Fife Council rụnyere oche na Charlestown, Limekilns na Pattiesmui.[6]
Bruce biri ndụ ya niile na Limekilns, na-akwụ ụgwọ obere ụlọ na Brooomhall estate. Ọ nwụrụ na 22 Jenụwarị 2023, mgbe ọ dị afọ 101.[2]
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lt Col Lady Martha Bruce, wartime aircraft plotter who in a life of service became a reforming prison governor – obituary", The Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2023. Retrieved on 5 February 2023."Lt Col Lady Martha Bruce, wartime aircraft plotter who in a life of service became a reforming prison governor – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Lt-Col The Lady Martha Bruce obituary", The Times, 26 January 2023. Retrieved on 27 January 2023."Lt-Col The Lady Martha Bruce obituary". The Times. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ↑ Food for Thought A Life in Four Courses. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023. Retrieved on 27 January 2023.
- ↑ Lady Martha Veronica Bruce - National Portrait Gallery (en). npg.org.uk. Retrieved on 26 January 2023.
- ↑ "Breaking through prison ceiling", The Herald, 23 February 1995. Retrieved on 27 January 2023.
- ↑ Aitken. "Limekilns: Community celebrates 100th birthday", Dunfermline Press, 6 February 2022. Retrieved on 27 January 2023.