Herbert Alexander Bruce
| Herbert Bruce | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale |
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In office 1940–1946 |
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| Preceded by | David Spence |
| Succeeded by | Harold Timmins |
| 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario | |
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In office November 1, 1932 – November 23, 1937 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII George VI |
| Governor General |
The Earl of Bessborough The Lord Tweedsmuir |
| Premier |
George Stewart Henry Mitchell Hepburn |
| Preceded by | William Mulock |
| Succeeded by | Albert Edward Matthews |
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Herbert Alexander Bruce September 28, 1868 , Ontario |
| Died | June 23, 1963 (aged 94) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Profession | surgeon, professor |
Herbert Alexander Bruce FRCS (September 28, 1868 – June 23, 1963), served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada, from 1932 to 1937.
Born in , Ontario near Port Perry, Bruce was educated as a surgeon at the University of Toronto and in Paris and Vienna. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He owned Wellesley Hospital in Toronto which he founded in 1911, and was a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto.
In 1916, during World War I, he was appointed inspector-general of the Canadian Army Medical Corps by Sir Sam Hughes, and attained the rank of colonel in the Canadian Army (Permanent Active Militia).
Bruce investigated medical practices in the army and issued a Report on the Canadian Army Medical Service which urged a complete reorganization of the medical corps. Few of his recommendations for general reorganization were immediately feasible from the military and economic points-of-view, and the manner of his appointment was protested by Sir William Osler as an affront to the medical profession. Bruce's report was disowned by the government at the time and he was dismissed from his duties, while his conservative patron, Hughes, was obliged to resign. In 1919, Bruce published Politics and the Canadian Army Medical Corps, criticizing the government for its actions but avoiding any specific denunciation of Hughes. Later in the war, as surgical consultant to the British forces, Bruce was able to advance some useful reforms in surgical management, including greater reliance on nurse-anesthetists and operating room technicians.
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