Burials database
> 6. Burial data collected by Lt-Col H K Percy-Smith and Brigadier Humphry Bullock.
 Percy-Smith/Bullock data |
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 1. Lists of burials and inscriptions.
| Transcribed by | Robert Charnock | | Comment | The Percy-Smith/Bullock papers contain a large number of lists of burials and inscriptions merged here into a unified database.
Many of the lists may be duplicated by material held by the Society of Genealogists. |
 | Surname | BRUCE | | | Given Names | Richard Isaac | | | Degrees/ Honours | CIE | | | Relationship | youngest son | | | Wife/husband/ parents | Mr Jonathan Bruce | | | Death Date | 29 January 19?? | | | Age | 83 yrs | | | Inscription | Mr Richard Isaac Bruce, CIE, died at Teddington (Middx) on January 29th in his 84th year. He belonged to a branch of the family of Bruce of Earlshall, Fife who settled in Co. Cork in the 17th century. He was the youngest son of Mr Jonathan Bruce of Prohurst and grandson of Mr Jonathan Bruce of Miltown Castle Charleville Co. Cork. His great uncle Major Gen Eyre Evans Bruce served in the Company's Army and his elder brother, the late Canon Robert Bruce, was for many years a missionary in Persia. In 1863 Richard Bruce was appointed an extra-assistant -commissioner in the Punjab and 30 years later attained the distinction, very unusual for an Uncovenated officer, of becoming Commissioner of Derajat. Those 30 years were spent in continuous service on the North West Frontier, the story of which is given in his book 'The Forward Policy and its Results' pub. 1896. Mr Bruce was a devoted Lieutenanat of Sir Robert Sandeman, with whom he went to Kelat in 1876, whose personal assistant he became and whose views on Frontier Administration he upheld staunchly. In the Baluchi tribal lays collected and translated by the late Mr Longworth-Danes, Mr Bruce appears with Sandeman as a sturdy fighter and ruler. He acquired an unequalled knowledge of the Mahsuds and Waziris. It fell to him to take over and occupy the Baluch stronghold of Quetta and his wife was the first European lady to enter the Baluch village which has grown into a great station. His varied service somewhat grudgingly recognised by the CIE awarded him in 1881 included the delimitation of the Afghan-Waziri boundary in 1894 and military expeditions in Afghanistan (1879-80), Zhob Valley (1884 and 1890), and Waziristan (1894-95). He married in 1871 Lilla, daughter of Rev J. Beaver Webb, of Dunderrow Co. Cork who died in 1911. She shared her husbands life on the Frontier in primative and uncomfortable conditions. They had 6 sons and a daughter. Three sons entered the Army: Major Maxwell Bruce, 107th Pioneers, killed in action in France. Lieut Col Charles Bruce, CIE OBE is deputy Commissioner of Kohat and Major G. Eyre Bruce, MC, 12th Frontier Brigade. Another son Richard Bruce obtained his commission in the Royal Engineers, won the MC on active service in France. Mr Bruce is survived by 5 sons and his only daughter |
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The data reproduced here was accumulated over many years by Lt-Col Hubert Kendall Percy-Smith (1897-1975) and Brigadier Humphry Bullock (d 1959), both Indian Army officers and keen genealogists intent on collecting biographical data on persons who served in British India. They gathered it from a variety of sources including publications about the sub-continent, church records and of course gravestones, and often received such information from others with similar interests. They also endeavoured to compile service histories and even pedigrees based on the material they had collected. This information is included here but researchers should bear in mind that it may sometimes represent no more than their deductions.
After his retirement Percy-Smith was for a time honorary librarian at the Society of Genealogists, and the greater part of the material collected by him and Bullock is deposited there, including a large card index. However, on his death, Percy-Smith bequeathed the papers still in his possession to the National Army Museum which subsequently donated them to BACSA which in turn has donated them to the British Library to be added to the India Office Private Papers in its custody.
In the meantime BACSA agreed to a proposal from the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) to transcribe the data for posting on both our websites. BACSA as the inheritor of Percy-Smith’s papers owns the copyright in his work, and Brigadier Bullock's daughter, Mrs Anne Macdonald, has generously given permission to publish his. BACSA is grateful to FIBIS and its transcriber Robert Charnock, and to Mrs Macdonald, for making it possible to bring this Percy-Smith/Bullock data to a wider public.
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