James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
1838–1922
Jurist, historian, and politician. Educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. Lifelong friend and collaborator of Albert Venn Dicey. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1862–89. Called to the bar, 1867. Liberal MP for Tower Hamlets, 1880–5; Aberdeen South, 1885–1907. Parliamentary under-secretary of foreign affairs, 1886; chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1892–4; president of the Board of Trade, 1894–5; chief secretary for Ireland, 1905–7; ambassador to the United States, 1907–13. Created Viscount Bryce, 1914.
Sources
ODNB
Stenton and Lees 1978
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Stenton, Michael and Lees, Stephen. 1978. Who’s who of British members of Parliament, 1886–1919. Volume 2 of Who’s who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod’s Parliamentary companion and other sources. Brighton: Harvester Press.
