Career
He served as the List of Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas from November 1866 to February 1867. He was appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon on 21 May 1883 succeeding Jacobus de Wet and served as Chief Justice until 1889. He was succeeded by John Winfield Bonser. Harry Dias Bandaranaike acted as Chief Justice from 9 January to 6 June 1888 when Burnside and Lovell Clarence went on leave. Clarence acted from November 1890 to February 1891 when Burnside and Bandaranaike retired.Personal life
Burnside was born to John and Mary Burnside. His son Robert Bruce Burnside was a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burnside, Bruce Chief Justices of British Ceylon 19th-century Sri Lankan people 20th-century Sri Lankan people Sri Lankan people of British descent British expatriates in Sri Lanka 19th-century British people 1833 births 1909 deaths Attorneys General of British Ceylon People from Nassau, Bahamas Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas