he had not altered his views. He considered himself a Unitarian, though not in the sense of Theophilus Lindsey and Thomas Belsham. The State of Society in the Age of Homer, Belfast, 1827. Brief Notes on the Gospels and Acts, Belfast, 1835. A Paraphrase, with Brief Notes on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Belfast, 1836. A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles and Apocalypse, Liverpool, 1836. A Brief Commentary on the New Testament, Belfast, 1836. In Presbyterian matters, Bruce preferred the looser administration of the English, and did not favour the presence of lay-elders in church courts. His view of the freedom consistent with Presbyterian discipline was written up in the supplement "by a member of the presbytery of Antrim" to the Newry edition (1816) of Micaiah Towgood's Dissenting Gentleman's Letters. Besides these works, Bruce contributed papers to the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Belfast Literary Society, Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals. A series of twenty-three historical papers on the "Progress of Nonsubscription to Creeds" went to the Christian Moderator, 1826–8, with extracts from original documents. His "Memoir of James VI", in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1828, published original letters, and information on his ancestor Robert Bruce of Kinnaird. Family Bruce married, on 25 January 1788, Susanna Hutton (died 22 February 1819, aged 56). They had twelve children, of whom six survived him. Notes Attribution 1757 births 1841 deaths Irish educators Christian clergy from Dublin (city) Irish non-subscribing Presbyterian ministers Irish Unitarians Burials at St. George's Church Cemetery, Dublin