Ap­ril 7, 1812, South Shields (near New­cas­tle on Tyne), Eng­land.

No­vem­ber 15, 1882, Bridge of Al­lan (near Stir­ling), Scot­land.

William was the eld­est son of Wil­liam Bruce, Unit­ed Se­cess­ion min­is­ter at South Shields (who, af­ter 1818, ran the Ar­doch Acad­e­my, Card­ross, Dum­bar­ton­shire). He at­tend­ed the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow (D.D. 1868), and in 1838, be­came min­is­ter of the In­firm­a­ry Street Unit­ed Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in Edin­burgh (then Cowgate). He was Mod­er­a­tor of Sy­nod in 1869, and in 1870 joined the Unit­ed Pres­by­ter­i­an Church’s Hym­nal Com­mit­tee. His works in­clude:

• He­brew Odes and Other Po­ems (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: D. S. Stew­art, 1874)
• Memories: A Tale; and Other Po­ems, 1878

• Julian, pp. 189, 1030

1. Ho­ly Fa­ther, Thou Hast Given
2. Seed We Bu­ry in the Earth, The