David Bruce (minister)

David Bruce (20 June 1824 – 15 December 1911) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister and journalist. He was born in Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland on 20 June 1824 to David Bruce, a carpenter and farmer. His younger brother was the churchman and theologian Alexander Balmain Bruce.

Bruce married Mary Alexander Sinclair in 1859. One of their daughters, Mary, married Frederick Smythe Willis, J.P., sometime mayor of Willoughby, New South Wales and a founder member (and first hon. treasurer) of the Corporation of Accountants of Australia.