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"SIR GAINSFORD BRUCE (1834-1912), English judge, was born in 1834. He graduated at Glasgow University and was called to the bar in 1859. He joined the northern and afterwards the north-eastern circuit, and during1869-1882reported Admiralty and ecclesiastical cases for the Law Reports. His strength lay in Admiralty law, and he made several contributions to its literature, notably an edition of Williams and Bruce's Admiralty Practice, and the 4th edition of Maude and Pollock on Shipping. He was recorder of Bradford during 1877-92, and successively solicitor-general (1879) and attorney-general (1886) to the county palatine of Durham. A Conservative in politics, he represented Holborn in Parliament from 1888 till he was raised to the bench in 1898. He was made a privy councillor on his retirement in 1904. He died at Bromley, Kent, Feb. 24 1912.