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Theodore Bruce (5 April 1847 – 2 July 1911) was an auctioneer, politician and Mayor of Adelaide 1904-1907. ==History== Theodore Bruce was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, a son of William Bruce, a large woollens manufacturer. A grandfather, Edward Baines, was the proprietor of the ''Leeds Mercury'' and member of the House of Commons for Leeds. He came to Australia with his parents in 1852, and shortly after his arrival commenced his elementary education at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, followed by St. Peter's College. His first employment was at a station in the far north of the South Australia, then in 1862 joined Randolph Isham Stow in the law firm of Stow & Bruce, followed around 1872 by the National Bank of Adelaide, which required him to travel around the north of the State, during which time he became an expert horseman. :His father, son of a Congregationalist minister in Wakefield, Yorkshire set up as a merchant in Adelaide in 1852 and retired in 1863, returned to England in 1876, and died at Ilkley in 1893, aged of 96 years. His mother died in 1890. In 1878 or 1880 he started an auctioneering business with old school-friend George S. Aldridge (1847–1911), later chairman of the Stock Exchange.〔These partners, both born in 1847, married the sisters McFie and died within two months of each other. Both were cremated.〕 They founded a brewery in Broken Hill, which Bruce managed, then in 1888 sold to the South Australian Brewing and Wine and Spirit Company. The partnership was dissolved in 1889, and Bruce continued as auctioneer on his own, with offices in the Old Exchange, Pirie street. He became a member of the Adelaide Stock Exchange. The business continues under his name to this day. 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「Theodore Bruce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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