Charles Bruce

Sir Charles Bruce (1836 – 13 December 1920) was a British colonial administrator and author. He was the 18th Governor of Mauritius, from 1897 to 1903.

Early life Charles Bruce was born in British India in 1836, the son of Thomas Bruce, of Arnott, Kinross-shire, who worked for many years for the Honourable East India Company. His father was a descendant of the 9th Earl of Home. Young Charles was educated at Harrow and Yale University.

His work The Broad Stone of Empire (1910) described his experience of the problems with Crown colony administration.

Later life On his return to the United Kingdom, Bruce became a campaigner for Indian immigrants and settlers in other British colonies, especially in South Africa. He was an early member of the committee formed in London to uphold their claims, and in June 1908 he headed a representative deputation to ask Lord Crewe for the intervention of the Home Government. daughter of John Lucas, and had two sons. Charles Maurice Dundas Bruce was born in Mauritius in 1869 and killed in action in the First Somaliland Campaign in 1903.

Lady Bruce died in April 1916. He himself died in Edinburgh 13 December 1920.

Publications Die Geschichte von Nala (1862) Poems (1865) The Broad Stone of Empire (1910) The True Temper of Empire (1912) Milestones on my Long Journey (1917)