[1] He was a student at Aberdeen University in the 1880s, where he was reputed one of the leading liberals amongst his cohort, and a member of the debating society.
[4] However a petition under the terms of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1868 by Sir Thomas Sutherland was heard at the start of August 1892, and judgement was made by Lord Rutherfurd-Clark and Lord Adam that an error had been made; that Sutherland had won a majority of 55, and that he should therefore be seated as MP.
[3] Bruce was again adopted as the Liberal candidate in the next general election, held in 1895, but resigned his candidacy owing to ill health; he took no active part in politics thereafter, though an obituary noted that "his political views changed considerably".
Yonderton Farm is to the north-west of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, in the parish of Cruden, Buchan.
The obituary comments that the estate of Yonderton was sold on the day before Bruce suddenly died.