Scottish history.- Bruce (Samuel Barwick, army surgeon, 1786-1852) [Lectures on Robert the Bruce; On Civil Liberty etc.], manuscript in several hands, ?lectures incomplete, some newspaper cuttings, some ff. loose at end, foxed and soiled, creased and browned, bookplate of Robert Fernie Dunlop Bruce and ticket of John Alexander Wilson on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, worn, rebacked in modern calf, preserved in a later calf bound box with 2 portraits of ?Bruce and stamp of John Alexander Wilson FRSA, pp. 8vo & 4to, volume 4to, [c. 1840].

⁂ Samuel Barwick Bruce, Esq., M.D F.L.M C.S M.R.C.S was born in the parish of St. Michaels in Barbados on January 8th 1786, the son of Dr. Barwick Bruce resided and Amabel his wife. In 1804 at the age of 17 Samuel received a commission in the medical department of the army, obtained through the influence of Major Hew Dalrymple of the 49th, who had married his first cousin. In his first action he accompanied a force which embarked in Barbados to assist Lord Nelson in the pursuit of Villeneuve's fleet, and was on board HMS Spartiate under Captain Francis Leforey. Later he served in other West Indian Islands, in the Peninsula in 1813, in America in 1814 and 1815, was present at the battle of Waterloo. In 1817 he was appointed to be medical attendant to the family of Earl de Grey; and he thereupon settled at Ripon.