William Downing Bruce
1847 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore carried on between us the undersigned, William John Hughes and William Downing Brace, as Civil Engineers and Architects, at No. 6. Clement's.-inn, in the county of Middlesex, is this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[1]
1850 Insolvent. '"William Downing Bruce, formerly of No. 18, Charles-street, Saint James'-square, then of No. 24, Saint James'-sqnare, then of No. 15, Panton-street, Haymarket, Gentleman, then of Thayer-street, Manchester-square, in partnership with one Mr. William John Hughes, at No. 6, Clement's Inn, Strand, as Civil Engineers, under the firm of Hughes and Bruce, then of No. 9, Bentinck-street, Manchester-square, then of No. 4, James-street, Westbourne-terrace, Edgeware-road, Paddington, then of No. 11, Fludyer-street, Westminster, and then and late of No. 11, Bridge-street, Westminster, all in Middlesex, Gentleman, in no profession or employ, during the whole period Author, and occasionally dealing in Railway Shares, also Director of various Railway Companies.[2]