Sir Bruce Donald Fraser KCB (18 November 1910 – 22 August 1993) was a Scottish civil servant in the United Kingdom.
Born on 18 November 1910, Bruce Fraser was educated at Bedford School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[2] He is probably best known now for revising Sir Ernest Gowers’ classic book The Complete Plain Words, written to teach officials and others how to write clearly.
'Tempora mutantur', Fraser might have remarked, had he not been averse to gratuitous insertion of Latin tags into plain English prose.)
In its turn the Fraser edition of Plain Words grew out of date and was superseded in 1986 by a complete revision by two academics, which remains instructive but is perhaps less likely to be read for pleasure.