David Bruce (minister)

David Bruce (20 June 1824 – 15 December 1911) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister and journalist. He was born in Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland on 20 June 1824 to David Bruce, a carpenter and farmer. His younger brother was the churchman and theologian Alexander Balmain Bruce.[1][2][3]

Bruce married Mary Alexander Sinclair in 1859.[4] One of their daughters, Mary, married Frederick Smythe Willis, J.P., sometime mayor of Willoughby, New South Wales and a founder member (and first hon. treasurer) of the Corporation of Accountants of Australia.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Breward, Ian. "David Bruce". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Ewing's Annals of the Free Church, reproduced at http://ecclegen.com- URL: http://ecclegen.com/ministers-b Date accessed: 06/09/2017
  3. ↑ http://ecclegen.com/obits-b/#BRUCE, ALEXANDER B.
  4. ↑ Ewing's Annals of the Free Church, reproduced at http://ecclegen.com- URL: http://ecclegen.com/ministers-b Date accessed: 06/09/2017
  5. ↑ "Marriage". The Press. XLIX (8317). 31 October 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 2017-09-06.



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