Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce, KCB (2 February 1792 – 14 December 1863) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.

Born the second son of Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1st Baronet and the former Letitia Barnard (a daughter of Rev.

He died in Liverpool on 14 December 1863 while still serving as a naval officer and was interred in the family vault at Downhill in Northern Ireland.

[1] He is memorialised on the family gravestone in the south-east corner of North Berwick parish churchyard.

[6] "This piece of silver plate was presented to Sir Henry William Bruce by his Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants in 1854 as a token of their grateful sense of his uniform, kindness and consideration to themselves, the officers and ship's companies under their command, during the period they had the pleasure of serving under him on the West Coast of Africa".