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Fast facts: Stanley Melbourne Bruce
Personal profile
Born:
15 April 1883 at Toorak, Victoria
Education:
Melbourne Grammar (1896–1901); Cambridge University (1903–06)
Employment:
barrister, soldier, businessman, public servant
Memberships:
Freemasons; Melbourne Club; League of Nations Union; Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Marriage:
12 July 1913, Sonning, Berkshire, England
Children:
none
Died:
25 August 1967, London, England
Buried:
cremated, ashes scattered over Canberra's new Lake Burley Griffin
Honours:
Military Cross (1915); Croix de Guerre avec Palme (1916); Companion of Honour (1927); Fellow of the Royal Society (1944); Viscount (1947)
Born:
25 May 1879, Melbourne
Died:
16 March 1967, London, England
Honours:
Viscountess (1947)
Political profile
Terms as PM:
9 February 1923 – 22 October 1929
Terms as MP:
House of Representatives: May 1918 – October 1929 and 17 February 1932 – October 1933 (Flinders)
Portfolios:
Treasurer: 21 December 1921 – 9 February 1923
External Affairs: 9 February 1923 – 22 October 1929
Health: 2 April 1927 – 24 February 1928
Trade and Customs: 8 May – 24 November 1928
Honorary Minister in London: 6 January 1932 – 36 October 1933
Political memberships:
Nationalist Party (1918–31); United Australia Party (1931–33)
After:
High Commissioner to Britain (7 October 1933 – 6 October 1945);
President of the League of Nations Council (1936);
Chair of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Council (1946–51);
Chancellor Australian National University (1951–61)
Quiz facts
- second youngest PM (Chris Watson was the youngest)
- led first all Australian-born Cabinet
- one of only two Prime Ministers to lose their seats while in office
- only Australian Prime Minister to become a British Peer
- first Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Bruce’s father, JM Bruce, was co-founder of Australia’s first golf club, the Royal Melbourne Golf Club, in 1891; Bruce was a founding member of the Royal Canberra Golf Club in 1927
- was nominated by the Australian government for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936
- only PM whose last remains were laid to rest in the national capital