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Herbert Bruce

Herbert Bruce
Herbert Alexander Bruce.jpg
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Parkdale
In office
1940–1946
Preceded by David Spence
Succeeded by Harold Timmins
15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
In office
November 1, 1932 – November 23, 1937
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
Personal details
Born Herbert Alexander Bruce
(1868-09-28)September 28, 1868
, Ontario
Died June 23, 1963(1963-06-23) (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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