Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter K.B.E., C.M.G., M.D. was a British physician and writer.
Biography
Bruce-Porter was born at Woolwich on 5 February 1869. He was educated at the London Hospital and qualified in 1892. Bruce-Porter won numerous scholarships including the Anatomy-Physiology Scholarship and Practical Anatomy Scholarship at London Hospital Medical College. He also won the Duckworth Nelson Scholarship in Practical Medicine and Surgery, a Scholarship in Clinical Medicine and Hon. Mention Military Medicine and Clinical Medicine and Surgery from Netley Hospital in 1898. He joined the Army Medical Staff and was promoted to surgeon-captain. After resigning, he started his own private medical practice in the West End of London. Bruce-Porter married Essie in 1896. During WWI he was recalled to service and promoted to manage the third London General Hospital where he was the head of a team of London consultants. He went to Mesopotamia and was in command of No. 40 British General Hospital and was awarded the C.M.G in 1917. He also worked as a physician to King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers. In 1919 then a colonel, he was honoured for his services with the K.B.E. Bruce-Porter was a Fellow of the Institute of Public Health, a member of the Council of the Imperial Service College Trust, a vice-president of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union and a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. In his later years he became associated with Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and was a founding member of the New Health Society. Similar to Lane he promoted dietary reform ideas and was a leading activist for The Sunlight League. Bruce-Porter promoted an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet. He argued against meat eaters and strict vegetarians. He is quoted as saying that the "best all-round diet is one made up of wholemeal bread, butter, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit and cheese". He was an advocate of fasting and opened a fasting centre at Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton. Bruce-Porter died on 15 October 1948 in Somerset.
