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<p> Bruce, [[Robert]] (1), D.D. </p> <p> an [[Associate]] minister, was born in the parish of Scone, [[Perth]] County, Scotland, in 1776. He graduated at the university of [[Edinburgh]] in 1798, and in 1801 was admitted as a student of divinity by the Associate [[Presbytery]] of Perth, and for five years prosecuted his studies under the venerable professor A. Bruce. He was licensed by the Associate Presbytery of Perth in 1806, and was immediately sent by the Scottish [[Synod]] as a missionary to the United States. After travelling some years, he became pastor of the Associate congregation in [[Fort]] Pitt, now Pittsburgh. In 1820 he was chosen president of the Western University; here he served until 1843, when he resigned. After this he had an important agency in establishing another institution (Duquesne College), of which he became provost, and held the place till the close of his life, June 14, 1846. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, IX, 3:90. </p>
<p> King of Scotland, son of the preceding, did homage for a time to Edward, but joined the national party and became one of a regency of four, with Comyn for rival; stabbed Comyn in a quarrel at Dumfries, 1306, and was that same year crowned king at Scone; was defeated by an army sent against him, and obliged to flee to Rathlin, Ireland; returned and landed in Carrick; cleared the English out of all the fortresses except Stirling, and on 24th June 1314 defeated the English under [[Edward]] II. at Bannockburn, after which, in 1328, the independence of [[Scotland]] was acknowledged as well as Bruce's right to the crown; suffering from leprosy, spent his last two years at Cardross Castle, on the Clyde, where he died in the thirty-third year of his reign (1274-1329). </p>


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<ref name="term_28360"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/bruce,+robert+(1),+d.d. Robert Bruce from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_69602"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/bruce,+robert+(3) Robert Bruce from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 15 October 2021

Robert Bruce [1]

King of Scotland, son of the preceding, did homage for a time to Edward, but joined the national party and became one of a regency of four, with Comyn for rival; stabbed Comyn in a quarrel at Dumfries, 1306, and was that same year crowned king at Scone; was defeated by an army sent against him, and obliged to flee to Rathlin, Ireland; returned and landed in Carrick; cleared the English out of all the fortresses except Stirling, and on 24th June 1314 defeated the English under Edward II. at Bannockburn, after which, in 1328, the independence of Scotland was acknowledged as well as Bruce's right to the crown; suffering from leprosy, spent his last two years at Cardross Castle, on the Clyde, where he died in the thirty-third year of his reign (1274-1329).

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