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Bryce, Viscount (UK, 1914 - 1922)

Creation: let.pat. 28 Jan 1914

Extinct: 22 Jan 1922

Family name: Bryce

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Arms:

Gules on a Saltire between four Mullets Or two Swords in saltire points upwards proper on a Chief Argent an Open Book also proper between two Trefoils slipped Vert

Crest:

In front of a Mountain with two peaks a Dexter Cubit Arm holding in the hand a Scimitar all proper

Supporters:

On either side a Chamois proper

Motto:

 Do well, doubt not

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James [Bryce], 1st Viscount Bryce, OM GCVO PC

1st son and heir of James Bryce, of Glasgow, by his wife Margaret Young, 1st dau. of James Young, of Abbeyville, co. Antrim

born

10 May 1838

mar.

23 Jul 1889 Elizabeth Marion Ashton (dsp. 27 Dec 1939), 2nd dau. of Thomas Ashton, of Hyde, co. Chester, and Ford Bank, Didsbury, Manchester, by his wife Elizabeth Gair, dau. of Samuel Stillman Gair, of Penketh Hall, Liverpool

died

s.p. 22 Jan 1922

created

28 Jan 1914 Viscount Bryce, of Dechmount in the County of Lanark

note

barrister, Lincoln's Inn 1867; Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University 1870-93; Professor of Jurisprudence at Owens College, Manchester 1870-75; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Tower Hamlets 1880-85 and for South Aberdeen 1885-1907; Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1886; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1892-94; Privy Councillor 1892; Member of the Senate of London University 1893; President of the Board of Trade 1894-95; Chairman of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education 1894; Privy Councillor [I] 1895; President, Alpine Club 1899-1901; Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1905-07; Order of Merit 1907; Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington 1907-13; FRS; President of the British Academy 1913-17; Bencher, Lincoln's Inn; British Member of the International Tribunal at The Hague; Trustee, National Portrait Gallery; Chairman, Second Chamber Conference 1918; GCVO 1918

On the death of the 1st Viscount Bryce the Viscountcy of Bryce became extinct.

 First written 2 Aug 2006

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