Alexander Carmichael Bruce

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| name = Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce

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| office = Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "A"

| term_start = 10 December 1888

| term_end = 1914

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| birth_date = 6 September 1850{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000243/18501005/061/0008 |access-date=19 May 2023 |work=Newcastle Journal|issue= |date=5 October 1850 |page=8 |quote=At Ferryhill Parsonage, on the 6th ult. the wife of the Rev. David Bruce, of a son.}}England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915

| birth_place = Ferryhill, County Durham, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|10|26|1850|9|6|df=yes}}

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Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce (6 September 1850 – 26 October 1926) was a British barrister who served as the second Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1888 to 1914.Obituary, The Times, 27 October 1926

Bruce was born in Ferryhill, County Durham,1911 England Census the fourth son of Canon David Bruce. He attended Rossall School in Lancashire and then Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in 1873 and being called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1875. He practised on the North-Eastern Circuit until 10 December 1888, when he was appointed Assistant Commissioner.{{cite book |title=Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 |date=1888 |publisher=University of Oxford |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhdJAQAAMAAJ&q=Sir+Alexander+Carmichael+Bruce&pg=PA178 |accessdate=9 July 2018 |language=en}} He was knighted on 18 July 1903 and retired in 1914.{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Neil R. A. |title=Capturing Jack The Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian England |date=2014 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=9781445621685 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wklpCAAAQBAJ&q=Sir+Alexander+Carmichael+Bruce&pg=PA116 |accessdate=9 July 2018 |language=en}}

Bruce married Helen Fletcher (later Dame Helen Bruce) in 1876. He lived at 82 Lexham Gardens, Kensington.