Robert Bruce (merchant adventurer)
# Robert Bruce (merchant adventurer)

Robert Bruce of Clackmannan was the son of Sir James Bruce and a direct descendant of Sir Thomas Bruce, 1st Baron of Clackmannan. Robert Bruce was a successful trader and he immigrated to the British Gold Coast in 1745. Bruce resided in the Ga city of Jamestown, Ghana.

## Background

Robert Bruce was an elder son of Sir James Bruce and an unknown mother in 1715. His father left to establish a plantation in Barbados and later on married Keturah French.

## Descendants

* King Bruce- Ghanaian singer

## Sources

* Mayor, A. (2005). Soziale Sicherheit und Entwicklung. Lit. p. 238. ISBN 9783825890315.
* House of Bruce
* Robert W. July, An African Voice: The Role of the Humanities in African Independence, Duke University press, 1987, p. 132.
* Robert W. July, The Origins of Modern African Thought: Its Development in West Africa During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1967), Africa World Press, 2004, p. 258.
* Seth Quartey, Carl Christian Reindorf: Colonial Subjectivity and Drawn Boundaries.
* Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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