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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare abstract "Clarence Napier Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, GBE (2 August 1885 – 4 October 1957), styled The Honourable from 1895 to 1929, was a British military officer, cricketer, tennis player, and also an excellent golfer. He was the second son of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.Bruce received his education at Twyford School, Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, and was admitted as a barrister of the Inner Temple; however, when World War I broke out, he decided to enter the British Army. His elder brother was killed in action in 1914, making him heir apparent to his father's barony.Lord Aberdare, who would rise to the substantive rank of captain (and would become an honorary colonel) in World War I, served variously in the Glamorgan Yeomanry, the 2nd Life Guards, the headquarters of the 61st (2nd South Midland) Division and in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment; in 1919, immediately after the armistice, he was promoted to captain. He inherited the barony in 1929. He served as the honorary colonel of the 77 (later 282) (Welsh) Heavy AA Brigade, RA from 1930 to 1952; during this period, he additionally served as major of the 11th Battalion, Surrey Home Guards during World War II. Between the two world wars, he was an active tennis player. Bruce was U.S.A. Amateur Champion in 1930 and of the British Isles in 1932 and 1938. He played eighteen times for Great Britain in the Bathurst Cup and six times won the Coupe de Paris. He carried off the M.C.C. Gold Prize on five occasions and nine times won the Silver Prize.In 1937, Aberdare was appointed chairman of the National Fitness Council, the first attempt at a Sports Council in England. It quickly established 22 area committees to help with its aim of promoting a fit population. It was funded by the Department of Education and provided capital grants for new facilities and other grants to help with the appointment of trainers and leaders. It had a difficult two years before being dissolved in October 1939. These included liaison with existing statutory and voluntary organisations. In absorbing the Juvenile Organisations Committee and its local committees it alienated many who had worked towards bridging the gap between recreation provided at school and to the wider community (14–20 age group). In addition there was much support for compulsory physical training as opposed to the Council's approach of a voluntary ethos.Simultaneously, Aberdare played an active role in the organisation of the Olympics; he served on the International Olympic Committee, and on the organising committee of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He served in many physical education and sportsmen's clubs, and was also be a member of the New College Society. In 1948, he was created a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and a Commander of the British Empire a year later. In 1954, he was additionally created a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire.His death was caused by drowning after his car fell over a precipice in Yugoslavia into three feet of water in a river bed on 4 October 1957 at the age of 72.".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare deathDate "1957-10-04".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare after Morys_Bruce,_4th_Baron_Aberdare.
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare birthDate "1885-08-02".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare dateOfDeath "1957-10-04".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare issue Morys_Bruce,_4th_Baron_Aberdare.
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare issue "Gwyneth Margaret Bruce".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare issue "Nigel Henry Clarence Bruce".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare issue "Rosalind Louise Balfour Bruce".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare name "3".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare name "Aberdare, Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare name "Clarence Bruce".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare parents Henry_Bruce,_2nd_Baron_Aberdare.
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare parents "Constance Mary Beckett".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare spouse "Griselda Harriet Violet Finetta Georgina Hervey".
- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare spouse "Margaret Bethune Black".
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- Clarence_Bruce,_3rd_Baron_Aberdare comment "Clarence Napier Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, GBE (2 August 1885 – 4 October 1957), styled The Honourable from 1895 to 1929, was a British military officer, cricketer, tennis player, and also an excellent golfer. He was the second son of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.Bruce received his education at Twyford School, Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, and was admitted as a barrister of the Inner Temple; however, when World War I broke out, he decided to enter the British Army.".
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