Major-General The Honourable Robert Bruce (15 March 1813 – 27 June 1862) was a British Army officer who served as Governor to the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
[1] Bruce entered the Army at the age of seventeen,[2] with the purchase of a commission as ensign and lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 18 June 1830.
Bruce served as military secretary to his brother Lord Elgin, the governor of Jamaica, from 1841 to 1846,[2] in the meantime being promoted captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards, again by purchase, on 2 August 1844.
[7] He acted again as military secretary to his brother from 1847 to 1854, during Elgin's term as Governor-General of the Province of Canada,[2] and on 20 June 1854 he was granted brevet rank as colonel.
[11] He attended the Prince during his time at Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge between 1859 and 1861, and accompanied him on his trips to Rome in 1859 and Canada and the United States in 1860.