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

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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

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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 ...

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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-baronet-stub