Graham Stewart Bruce
Graham Stewart Bruce (1854-1901)
1901 Obituary [1]
GRAHAM STEWART BRUCE WAS born in Leghorn, on 6th November 1854.
He was educated at the German School in Leghorn, and at the Percy Street Academy, Newcastle-on-Tyne, which latter Institution was founded by his uncle, Dr. Bruce.
From 1871 to 1876 he served his time with Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and remained with them as draughtsman for some time afterwards.
He was next employed on the designs for the Jarrow Works of the South Shields Gas Co., which included the construction of a mechanical stoker.
His next engagements were in the running-shed department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Newton Heath, and of the North Eastern Railway at Gateshead.
In 1881 he joined the South Indian Railway as assistant locomotive and carriage superintendent at Negapatam, and was promoted to be deputy superintendent in 1891.
This position he held until the time of his death, which took place at Negapatam on 28th September 1901, in his forty-seventh year. He was a keen volunteer, having belonged to the Artillery Volunteers while a resident in Newcastle.
He was an officer in the South Indian Railway Volunteers from their formation, and at the time of his death was Commandant with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He received the Volunteer Decoration in 1900.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1899.