David Bruce DD (20 June 1824 – 15 December 1911) was a Scots-born New Zealand Presbyterian minister and journalist who spent his final years in Australia.
He was born in Cramond, near Edinburgh on 20 June 1824 to David Bruce, a carpenter and farmer, and his wife, Margaret Robertson.
However, finding no employment, he boarded the SS Simlah, bound for Auckland in New Zealand, arriving there in June 1853.
Their eldest daughter, Agnes ("Essie") married the physician and writer Sir H. E. B. Bruce-Porter;[7][8] third daughter, Jessie Sinclair Bruce, married the politician, social reformer and medical practitioner Richard Arthur.
[9][10] The youngest daughter, Mary Alexander Sinclair Bruce (d. 1954), married Frederick Smythe Willis, J.P., sometime mayor of Willoughby, New South Wales and a founder member (and first hon.