Bruce, Charles

Title

Sir

First name(s)

Charles

Surname

Bruce GCMG JP

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature, 1865-1869

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Harrow
• Yale

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Librarian, British Museum Library
• Rector, Royal College, Mauritius (1868-)
• Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon (1878-)
• Colonial Secretary, Mauritius (1882-)
• Lieut. Gov. of British Guiana (1885-1893)
• Governor of the Windward Isles (1897-1898)
• Governor of Mauritius (1897-1904)

Professional activities

• Member of the Carlton Club
• Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1881)
• Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Kinross-shire

Publications

• Contributor, Otto von Böhtlingk and Rudolf von Roth Sanskrit Wörterbuch (Imperial Acadamy of St. Petersburg,1855–75)
• 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) ^{Ref: *1}

Personal details

Date of birth

1836

Place of birth

India

Date of death

13 December 1920

Obituary

"Death of Sir Charles Bruce - services to the Empire". The Times (42593). London. 14 December 1920

Family details

Married to Clara Lucas in 1868, two sons.