Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet PC (Ire) (22 September 1820 – 8 December 1907) was an Irish

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politician. He was Member of Parliament for

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from 1862 to 1874, and from 1880 to 1885.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, volume 1, pps. 553-554.

Early life

Bruce was born on 22 September 1820. He was the eldest son of Ellen Hesketh (d. 1864) and Sir James Bruce, 2nd Baronet, an

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in the

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who served as a Vice-Lieutenant of

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. Among his siblings were Col. Robert Bruce (who married Mary Caroline Burgoyne, a daughter of Col. Sir John Burgoyne, 9th Baronet), the Rev. Lloyd Stuart Bruce (father of Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce, the wife of

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). His maternal grandfather was Robert Bamford Hesketh of

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. His paternal grandparents were Sir Henry Bruce, 1st Baronet and Letitia Barnard. His grandfather, who was the brother of Sir Stewart Bruce, 1st Baronet, inherited

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from their cousin,

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, and was created

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, of Downhill in the

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, in 1804.

Career

He held the office of

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in 1846. Bruce was elected to the

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at an unopposed by-election in 1862, following the death of the Conservative MP John Boyd. He was re-elected unopposed at the general elections in

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and

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, but was defeated at the 1874 general election by the Liberal candidate Daniel Taylor. He defeated Taylor (by 222 votes to 193) at the 1880 general election, and held the seat until the borough of

lost its separate parliamentary representation at the 1885 general election. He held the office of County Grand Master of the County Grand Orange Lodge of Londonderry between 1855 and 1857. He was

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from 1877 to 1907, and Honorary Colonel of the Londonderry Militia (later

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) from 1878.''Army List'', various dates. He was sworn of the

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in 1889.

Personal life

In 1842 he married Marianne Margaret Clifton (d 1891), daughter of Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet of

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. Together, they were the parents of: * Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet (1843–1919), who married Ellen Maud Ricardo, daughter of Percy Ricardo, in 1872. * Admiral Sir

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(1846–1921), who married Catherine Mary Philippa Wodehouse, daughter of Col. Edwin Wodehouse and sister of Sir

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, in 1877. Lady Bruce died on 28 July 1891. Sir Henry died on 8 December 1909 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Hervey.

References

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