Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bruce, John Collingwood
BRUCE, The Rev. John Collingwood, LL.D., F.S.A., born at Newcastle in 1805, was educated at his father's school, at Mill Hill Grammar School, and at the University of Glasgow. In 1826 he took the degree of M.A., and became LL.D. in 1853. In 1882 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Durham. Though educated for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, he did not enter orders, but joined his father in the management of his school. During the year 1881 he held the office of "Moderator" or President of the Presbyterian Church of England. He has written "A Handbook of English History," which has gone through four editions. All the recent editions of the "Introduction to Geography and Astronomy," of which his father was the principal author, were prepared by him. In 1851 he published an historical and descriptive account of the "Roman Wall," in the north of England, a third edition of which appeared in 1866. Dr. Bruce, in 1856, published "The Bayeaux Tapestry elucidated," containing a copy, on a reduced scale, of the entire tapestry. More recently he has published "A Handbook to Newcastle," and a "Wallet Book" for the use of Pilgrims to the Roman Wall. He has edited for the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne the "Lapidarium Septentrionale," a work in folio, which contains an account of all the monuments of Roman rule found in the North of England. This book was undertaken at the request of the late Algernon, fourth Duke of Northumberland, and is profusely illustrated by the liberality of that nobleman and others.