Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1st Baronet (6 September 17881822) was an Irish priest.
In 1785 he graduated
Bachelor of Arts
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(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
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, 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
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