Henry Bruce (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Henry Harvey Bruce KCB MVO (8 May 1862 – 14 September 1948) was a British Royal Navy officer.

His first sea service was in HMS Black Prince, flagship of the Channel Squadron and the second ironclad battleship in the Royal Navy.

He was promoted sub-lieutenant in June 1882, went to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in August 1882, and in 1883 was appointed to the gunboat HMS Swinger in Australia.

In 1911 he took command of the cruiser HMS Defence, escorting the King and Queen to India and back for the Delhi Durbar, for which he was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).

In 1915 he was appointed the first commodore-superintendent of Rosyth Dockyard and was responsible for its development over the five years he held command, being promoted rear-admiral in April 1917.