The Honourable William Napier Bruce, CH CB (18 January 1858 – 20 March 1936)[1] was a British educationalist and lawyer.
The son of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare by his second wife Norah Creina Blanche, Bruce was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read the Greats.
In 1883, Bruce was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn.
[1] In 1886, he joined the Charity Commission as Assistant Commissioner under the Endowed Schools Acts, where he served until 1900.
In 1929, he became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales, in succession to Lord Kenyon.