Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare

The Lord Aberdare
Lord Aberdare in 1967
Minister without portfolio
In office
8 January 1974 – 4 March 1974
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Lord Drumalbyn
Succeeded byThe Lord Young of Graffham
Minister of State for Health and Social Security
In office
23 June 1970 – 8 January 1974
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Baroness Serota
Succeeded byBrian O'Malley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
5 October 1957 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 3rd Baron Aberdare
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999 – 23 January 2005
Preceded bySeat established[a]
Succeeded byThe 2nd Viscount Eccles
Personal details
Born
Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce

(1919-06-16)16 June 1919
Died23 January 2005(2005-01-23) (aged 85)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Maud Helen Sarah Dashwood
(m. 1946)
ParentClarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (father)
EducationSandroyd School
Winchester College
Alma materNew College, Oxford

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, KBE, GCStJ, PC, DL (16 June 1919[1] – 23 January 2005[2]), was a Conservative politician, and from 1999 until his death, one of ninety-two elected hereditary peers in the British House of Lords. He was the eldest son of Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, and Margaret Bethune Black, and succeeded to his father's title on the latter's death in 1957.


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  1. ^ "Aberdare, Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce". Who's Who 1998 : an Annual Biographical Dictionary. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1998. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0-312-17591-4.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Lord Aberdare". The Guardian. 19 February 2005. Retrieved 4 January 2020.