Bruce Shand was Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of East Sussex from 1974 until 1992 and was a Master of Foxhounds.
25 Facts About Bruce Shand
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Bruce Shand was the only son of Philip Morton Shand, an architectural writer and critic.
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Bruce Shand's father was a close friend of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and whose company, Finmar, imported furniture by Alvar Aalto to the United Kingdom.
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Bruce Shand's mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington, later Mrs Herbert Charles Tippet.
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Bruce Shand's parents divorced when he was three years old.
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Bruce Shand did not see his father again until he was 18.
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Bruce Shand's mother remarried Herbert Charles Tippet, a golf course designer.
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Contrary to some newspaper reports, young Bruce Shand was not abandoned by his mother and stepfather but was taken to live with them in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in 1921.
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Bruce Shand left out this fact from his autobiography, giving the erroneous impression of having been abandoned.
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Bruce Shand's stepfather died at Rye in 1947 and his mother died in Cooden Beach, Sussex, in 1981.
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Bruce Shand was educated at Rugby and Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 12th Lancers as a second lieutenant on 28 January 1937.
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Bruce Shand served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force.
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Bruce Shand aided in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk, from where he was evacuated back to England, arriving back in Margate on 31 May 1940.
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Bruce Shand earned his second MC in January 1942, covering the withdrawal of armoured cars of the 6th Rajputana Rifles in the face of a strong counterattack by the Afrika Corps.
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Bruce Shand met Winston Churchill shortly before the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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Bruce Shand was captured and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war.
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On 25 April 1947, Bruce Shand was retired from the army on account of disability and was granted the honorary rank of major.
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Bruce Shand had a country house, The Laines in Plumpton, East Sussex, and a town house in South Kensington, but in later life moved to Dorset.
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Bruce Shand was a reviewer of military books for Country Life magazine.
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Bruce Shand compiled Bishop's diaries into a book after his death in 1986.
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Bruce Shand was a Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and was Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of East Sussex from 1974 until 1992.
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Bruce Shand remained passionate about fox hunting and was Master of Southdown Fox Hounds from 1956 to 1975.
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Bruce Shand was Exon and later Adjutant and Clerk of the Cheque of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
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In 1993, Bruce Shand reportedly reproached the Prince of Wales at a private event for ruining his daughter's life after the relationship became public.
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Bruce Shand died from cancer in 2006, aged 89 at his home in Stourpaine, Dorset, with his family at his bedside.