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  Stanley Bruce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (15 April 1883 – August 25, 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia.
Bruce was invalided home to Melbourne, and soon became involved in recruiting campaigns for the Army.
Bruce formed an effective partnership with the Country Party leader, Dr Earle Page, and exploited public fears of communism and militant trade unions to dominate Australian politics through the 1920s.
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (15 April 1883 – August 25 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, was the eighth (additional info and facts about Prime Minister of Australia) Prime Minister of Australia.
Bruce formed an effective partnership with the Country Party leader, (additional info and facts about Dr Earle Page) Dr Earle Page, and exploited public fears of (A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society) communism and militant trade unions to dominate Australian politics through the 1920s.
But Lyons wanted Bruce out of politics and in 1933 he was dispatched to London as (A senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank) High Commissioner.
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Educated in England and France, Thomas Bruce succeeded to the Earldoms of Elgin and Kincardine in 1771, entered the army in 1785, and was successively envoy to the Holy Roman Empire, to Brussels, to Berlin and to the Ottoman Empire.
Bruce served as Australian delegate to the League of Nations and in 1936 was president of the council.
Eli Metcalfe Bruce, born near Flemingsburg, Ky., February 22, 1828, was not a soldier of the Confederacy, but was with the army on many battlefields and spent a fortune for the relief of the sick and disabled.
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 Bruce of Melbourne, 1st Viscount Biography / Biography of Bruce of Melbourne, 1st Viscount Biography
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883-1967), was an Australian statesman, diplomat, and international administrator.
Stanley Bruce was born in Melbourne on April 15, 1883, the son of a successful merchant.
Bruce enlisted in 1914 and served in a British regiment; he was twice wounded before his discharge in 1917.
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 User talk:Lord Emsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Lord, I gather from the debate about Stanley Bruce that we have a rule that peerage titles are not to be used in article headings when the person was better known by their pre-peerage name.
In that case you might like to consider moving John Forrest, 1st Baron Forrest of Bunbury, since he was Sir John Forrest for most of his public life and was only given his peerage shortly before his death.
As I have said elsewhere, Stanley Bruce was and is frequently called Lord Bruce, and Anthony Eden (for example) is certainly sometimes refered to as the Earl of Avon.
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In 1947 he was created Viscount Bruce of Melbourne and Westminster.
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During his administration, Bruce strove to develop the Australian economy, especially by integrating it with that of Great Britain.
He was created a baron in 1919 and a viscount in 1928.
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This is a List of Privy Counsellors of England and Great Britain appointed between the reorganisation of the Privy Council in 1679 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce (15 April 1883 - August 25 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, later Viscount Bruce of Melbourne and Westminster, was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia.
When the Nationalist Party lost its majority at the 1922 election, the Country Party demanded that Prime Minister Billy Hughes resign as the price of joining a coalition government, and Bruce found himself Prime Minister at the age of 40.
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Edited by Bruce C. Kelley and Mark A. Snell
The American Civil War: An English View — The Writings of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley.
Edited by Stuart C. Mowbray and Bruce C. Bazelon.
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