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Henry Bruce (naval Officer)
Henry Bruce may refer to: *Henry Bruce (Royal Navy officer, born 1792) (1792–1863), British admiral *Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815–1895), British statesman *Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare (1851–1929), his son *Sir Henry Bruce (Royal Navy officer) (1862–1948), British admiral *Henry Bruce (Australian politician) (1884–1958), Queensland and Federal Australian politician *Henry Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquess of Ailesbury (1842–1911), British soldier and politician *Sir Henry Bruce, 3rd Baronet (1820–1907), Member of Parliament for Coleraine 1862–1874 and 1880–1885 *Henry Bruce (priest) (1788–1822), Irish priest *Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), British diplomat and author See also *Harry Bruce (other) {{hndis, Bruce, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce (Royal Navy Officer, Born 1792)
Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce (2 February 1792 – 14 December 1863) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Military career Born the son of Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1st Baronet, Bruce joined the Royal Navy in 1803.Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce Naval & Military Museum He took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He also took part in the . He became Captain of HMS ''Britannia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895), was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council. Background and education Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner, and his first wife Sarah, daughter of Reverend Hugh Williams Austin. John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire. Henry was educated from the age of twelve at the Bishop Gore School, Swansea ( Swansea Grammar School). In 1837 he was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn. Shortly after he had begun to practice, the discovery of coal beneath the Duffryn and other Aberdare Valley estates brought his family great wealth. From 1847 to 1854 Bruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare
Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare (19 June 1851 – 20 February 1929), styled The Honourable from 1873 to 1895, was a British soldier and peer. Background Bruce was the eldest son of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, who had served as Home Secretary. His mother Annabella was his father's first wife and the daughter of Richard Beadon.Dod (1915), p. 41 He was educated at Rugby School and at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In 1895, he succeeded his father as baron. Career His military career, by virtue of his status in the nobility, was started early: he served in the Welch Regiment and became a major of the 3rd Battalion in 1899. A year later he was appointed its honorary lieutenant-colonel and in 1910 honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion. Later Bruce was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Battalion. He was decorated with the Volunteer Decoration. Bruce was president of University College as well as of the National Museum Wales. He was a Justice of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Henry Harvey Bruce KCB MVO (8 May 1862 – 14 September 1948) was a British Royal Navy officer. Bruce was born in Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Devon, the son of Commander Sir Thomas Bruce, who later became Superintendent of Packets at Dover. He followed his father into the Navy as a Cadet at HMS ''Britannia'' in 1875. His first sea service was in HMS ''Black Prince'', flagship of the Channel Squadron and the second ironclad battleship in the Royal Navy. He then joined the frigate HMS ''Raleigh'' in the Mediterranean as a Midshipman, followed by HMS ''Monarch'', the first turret ship, from November 1879, taking part in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. He was promoted Sub-Lieutenant in June 1882, went to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in August 1882, and in 1883 was appointed to the gunboat HMS ''Swinger'' in Australia. He remained in her until 1887, having been promoted Lieutenant in December 1884. In February 1888 he joined the cruiser HMS ''Porpoise'' on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce (Australian Politician)
Henry Adam Bruce (16 May 1884 – 11 October 1958), known as Harry Bruce, was an Australian politician and former union organiser. First entering state politics in Queensland before later entering Parliament of the Commonwealth. Biography Born in Wandiligong, Victoria, he was educated at Haileybury College in Melbourne before moving to Queensland to become a bushworker in 1902. Later, he was a sugar grower and an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). In 1923 Bruce was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for the district of Kennedy. In 1932, he was elected as member for The Tableland. In that year he was appointed Secretary of Public Works; in 1938 he was also made Secretary of Public Instruction, a position he held until 1941. In 1947 he was transferred from Public Works to Public Instruction. During this time, the Bruce Highway was named in his honour. Bruce left the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1950, and the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquess Of Ailesbury
Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce, 5th Marquess of Ailesbury (11 April 1842 – 10 March 1911), styled Lord Henry Bruce from 1878 to 1894, was a British soldier, businessman and Conservative politician. Early life Ailesbury was the third son of Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury, and his wife the Hon. Louisa Elizabeth, daughter of John Horsley-Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies. He was educated at Windlesham House School and Eton College. Career He served in the British Army and achieved the rank of captain in the 9th Regiment of Foot and lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment. Between 1886 and 1892 he sat as Member of Parliament for Chippenham. He was also chairman of Meux & Co, brewers. In 1894 he succeeded to the marquessate on the early death of his nephew and took his seat in the House of Lords. Family Lord Ailesbury married, in 1870, Georgiana Sophia Maria Pinckney, daughter of George Henry Pinckney, of Tawstock, Dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Bruce, 3rd Baronet
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet (22 September 1820 – 8 December 1907) was an Irish Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Coleraine from 1862 to 1874, and from 1880 to 1885. In 1842 he married Marianne Margaret Clifton (d 1891), daughter of Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet of Clifton Hall, Nottingham. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Londonderry in 1846. Bruce was elected to the House of Commons 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 1865 and 1868, but was defeated at the 1874 general election by the Liberal candidate Daniel Taylor.Walker, op. cit., pages 115 He defeated Taylor (by 222 votes to 193) at the 1880 general election, and held the seat until the borough of Coleraine lost its separate parliamentary representation at the 1885 general election. He held the office of County Grand Master of the County Grand Oran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruce (priest)
Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1st Baronet (6 September 17881822) was an Irish priest. In 1785 he graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Trinity College, Dublin. He was the brother of Sir Stewart Bruce, 1st Baronet. He married Letitia Barnard on 10 November 1786. He was created baronet, of Downhill in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, in 1804.''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', Volume 12 (Burke's Peerage Limited, 1848), p.139. He was succeeded in his title by his son, James Bruce James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first Eur .... References 1788 births 1822 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Church of Ireland priests 19th-century Irish Anglican priests {{UK-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Bruce
Henry James Bruce CMG MVO (1 November 1880 – 10 September 1951) was a British diplomat and author. Nearing the end of a diplomatic career in the Austrian, German and Russian Empires, he married the ballerina Tamara Karsavina. In the 1930s, he was an adviser to the National Bank of Hungary, and in retirement wrote books about his life. Early life A younger son of Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet (1843–1919), by his marriage to Ellen Maud Ricardo OBE, Bruce was one of four sons. His father, who was an officer of the Coldstream Guards, had country houses at Clifton Hall, near Nottingham, and Downhill, County Londonderry, and owned altogether some 22,000 acres. Like his father and brothers, Bruce was educated at Eton.‘BRUCE, Henry James’, in ''Who Was Who'' (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008online edition(subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 17 January 2011 Bruce's parents lived mainly in London and at Downhill until in 1896 his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
