[4] Bruce-Porter was a Fellow of the Institute of Public Health, a member of the Council of the Imperial Service College Trust, a vice-president of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union and a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

[8] He is quoted as saying that the "best all-round diet is one made up of wholemeal bread, butter, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit and cheese".

[4] In 1896, Bruce-Porter married Agnes, known as "Essie" (1860-1937), daughter of Presbyterian minister David Bruce and widow of J. H. Honeyman, MD, of Auckland, New Zealand.

They lived at New House Farm, Chobham, and Little St Anne's, Englefield Green, Surrey, and at 6, Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London.

Essie married in 1931 Geoffrey Archibald Clarkson, OBE, deputy superintendent of navy examinations for the Admiralty and dean of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, and had three sons (the second being Alan Clarkson, Archdeacon of Winchester from 1984 to 1999); Jessie married in 1923 Henry Douglas Bessemer, of Bench House, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, a chartered accountant and amateur entomologist and great-grandson of Sir Henry Bessemer, who developed the Bessemer process for manufacturing steel.