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John Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland FRS FRSE (1744–1826) was a Scottish academic, politician and historiographer to the East India Company. ==Life== He was born in Fife in 1744 or 1745 the son of Andrew Bruce (1710-1761) and Jean Squyre (1724-1794).〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 While he had himself declared heir male of the family of Bruce of Earlshall, Bruce inherited from his father Andrew Bruce, a shipmaster, only the property of Grangehill, near Kinghorn, Fifeshire. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he was then appointed assistant professor of logic to John Stevenson, and professor of moral philosophy.〔 Tutor to Robert Saunders Dundas, the son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Bruce was rewarded by a share, with Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet of the reversion of the patent of king's printer and stationer for Scotland; and was appointed keeper of the state paper office, secretary for the Latin language to the Privy Council, and official historiographer to the East India Company from 1801. He was Member of Parliament for Mitchell, Cornwall, from February 1809 till July 1814, and for a short time Secretary to the Board of Control, under Robert Dundas.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bruce, John (?1745-1826), of Grangehill, Fife, History of Parliament Online )〕 Bruce was an elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1791. In 1783 he was a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Göttingen. In 1764 he founded the Speculative Society.〔 He died at his home of Nuthill House in Fife, on 16 April 1826.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bruce (historiographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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