Lloyd Stephens Bryce (September 20, 1851 – April 2, 1917) was an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1887 to 1889. He was also a prominent magazine editor.

Early life

Lloyd Bryce was born in

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on September 20, 1851. His father, Joseph Smith Bryce (1808–1901), graduated third in his class from the

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in 1829,

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was second, and served as a

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Major in the

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, engaged in the defense of

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Lloyd's sister was Clemence Smith Bryce, who married

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, the

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and

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, and was the mother of

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. He was a nephew of

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, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He attended

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, Washington, D.C., and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with

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and

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degrees. Bryce also studied at

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Career

Bryce was an avid sports enthusiast, and wrote that sports were capable both of quelling revolutionary thought among the poor and promoting understanding between nations. He was a frequent participant in polo matches in

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and

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and fox hunts on Long Island.

Political career

Bryce, a

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, became interested in politics. In 1886,

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David B. Hill appointed him to the governor's staff as Paymaster General of the militia with the rank of

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, a largely ceremonial position. Afterwards he was known as General Bryce. Bryce was elected as a

to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. He was appointed Minister to the Netherlands on August 12, 1911, and he served until September 10, 1913.

Writer and editor

His friend

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, the editor and owner of the ''

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'', died unexpectedly in 1889 and left the magazine to Bryce in his will. Bryce was the owner and editor from 1889 to 1896. Influenced by his experience in Congress he wrote an early "

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" story, called ''Dream of Conquest'' for the June 1889 issue of ''

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''. His other published works include: ''Paradise: A Novel'' (1888); ''Romance of an Alter Ego'' (1889); ''Friends in Exile'' (1893); and ''Lady Blanche's Salon'' (1899).

Family

In 1879, he married Edith Cooper (1854–1916), the only child of

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Edward Cooper, and granddaughter of the famous industrialist

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. Together, they were the parents of: *

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(1880–1960), who married President of the

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(1851–1936) * Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce (1881–1960), who married conservationist

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(1865–1946), the first Chief of the

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under

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, in 1914. * Peter Cooper Bryce (1889–1964), who married Angelica Schuyler Brown (1890–1980), of the Brown banking family, in 1917. Bryce died in

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, April 2, 1917, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery,

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. The bulk of his estate, worth $1,665,061, was left to his two daughters, with his son receiving all his paintings, including a portrait by Godfrey Kneller, books, engravings, and clothing. His home at 1025

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was left to his children in four equal shares, two to his son and one to each of his daughters.

Descendants

His grandson, Henry Sergeant Cram (1907–1997), married Edith Kingdon Drexel (1911–1934), the granddaughter of

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and

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, in 1930. Cram later married Ruth Vaux, a granddaughter of

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, after his first wife's death. His granddaughter, Edith Bryce Cram (1908–1972), married Arthur Gerhard in 1950.

References

External links

* *James Terry White
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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