Which employer did Charles Bruce (governor) work for between Oct 1895 and Oct 1901?
Charles Bruce ( governor ) Sir Charles Bruce ( 1836 – 13 December 1920 ) was a British colonial administrator and author . He was the 18th Governor of Mauritius , from 1897 to 1903 . Early life . Charles Bruce was born in India in 1836 , the son of Thomas Bruce , of Arnott , Kinross-shire , who worked for many years for the Honourable East India Company . His father was a descendant of the 9th Earl of Home . Young Charles was educated at Harrow and Yale University . In early life he went to Germany , and devoted himself to the study of Oriental language and literature , mainly Sanskrit and Zend-Pahlavi . He assisted in preliminary work for the Great Sandskrit Dictionary by Otto von Böhtlingk and Rudolf von Roth ( Sanskrit Wörterbuch , 7 vols. , 1855–75 ) , published by the Imperial Academy of St . Petersburg . It was through this connection he was able to get the academy to publish his work Die Geschichte von Nala ( 1862 ) , an attempt to restore the original text of an episode in the Indian epic , the Mahabharata . While serving as a librarian at the British Museum , he was in 1865 elected Professor of Sanskrit at Kings College , Cambridge . Colonial administrator . Bruce left for Mauritius in 1868 , to take up position as Rector of the Royal College in Port Louis . He held this post for 10 years , until he transferred to Ceylon in 1878 to become Director of Public Instruction . He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in the 1881 Birthday Honours for his service during his years in Ceylon . By 1882 he was back in Mauritius as Colonial Secretary , but left for British Guiana in 1885 to become Lieutenant-Governor . He continued as such until 1893 , during which he was three times Acting Governor , and in 1889 was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) . In 1893 , Bruce was appointed Governor of the Windward Islands . The colony of the Windward Islands consisted at this time of Grenada , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , and St . Lucia , the Governor had his seat in Grenada . Bruce was appointed Governor of Mauritius in May 1897 . The six years of his tenure as governor , until 1903 , were marked by substantial progress . With the support of the Colonial Secretary , Joseph Chamberlain , he reformed every public department and took measures to prepare the island to meet frequent devastating hurricanes . He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) in August 1901 , on the occasion of the royal visit of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York ( later King George V and Queen Mary ) His work The Broad Stone of Empire ( 1910 ) described his experience of the problems with Crown colony administration . Later life . On his return to the United Kingdom , Bruce became a campaigner for Indian immigrants and settlers in other British colonies , especially in South Africa . He was an early member of the committee formed in London to uphold their claims , and in June 1908 he headed a representative deputation to ask Lord Crewe for the intervention of the Home Government . He was also a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Kinross-shire Family . Bruce married , in 1868 , Clara Lucas , daughter of John Lucas , and had two sons . Charles Maurice Dundas Bruce was born in Mauritius in 1869 and killed in action in the First Somaliland Campaign in 1903 . Lady Bruce died in April 1916 . He himself died in Edinburgh 13 December 1920 . Publications . - Die Geschichte von Nala ( 1862 ) - Poems ( 1865 ) - The Broad Stone of Empire ( 1910 ) - The True Temper of Empire ( 1912 ) - Milestones on my Long Journey ( 1917 )