Personal
Bruce married Ethel Dunlop Anderson (born 25 May 1879) in 1913. They had no children. He died in London on 25 August 1967, aged 84. As he was childless the viscountcy became extinct. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin. Viscountess Bruce of Melbourne died on 16 March 1967, only a few months before her husband.
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