John Pablo Bryce of Bystock Court,

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(10 October 1846 in Callao,

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– 3 March 1901 in

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) was a member of the

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Family

He was the son of John Paul Bryce (1817 in

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– 9 March 1888 in Biarritz), founder of the Bryce & Co. ship company and the General South American Bank, and full partner in the

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, who went to

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between 1837 and 1862, where he married at Callao, on 11 June 1845 Gertrudis María de los Dolores de Vivero y Morales (

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, 16 November 1824 -

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, 1895). He was the paternal grandson of Francis Bryce and first wife Janet Weddle, and maternal grandson of José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverría, Governor of

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, and wife Lucía Morales.

Biography

He held the office of

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in 1896.

Marriage and issue

He married in Paris in 1870/71 with María de las Mercedes González de Candamo y Iriarte (24 May 1849 in

– 2 August 1929 in San Sebastián), sister of Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte (1841–1904), President of Peru (1903–1904). They had, at least, five sons and two daughters:The Peruvian Genealogical Studies Institute. * Virginia Gertrudis Bryce (b. 1872), married to Capt. Hugh Gainford, of

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* Paul John Bryce (b. circa 1873 at

– December 1892 at

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) * Charles Alexander Bryce (b. 1875 – d. circ. before 1923), Captain of the

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, married Mrs Marion Evelyn Barclay ''née'' Ives (1874-1950, who remarried as her third husband in 1923 to the 2nd

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), daughter of Major-General Cecil Robert St John Ives and Hon. Susan Ann

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. They had one son: **John Felix Charles "Ivar" Bryce (b. 1906 – d. 1985),

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, married firstly Vera de Sà Sottomaior, of

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(remarried to

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) then secondly Josephine

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O'Donnell, the A&P heiress and sister of

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. Bryce was a close friend of Ian Fleming, author of the

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s * Francis (Frank) Bryce of

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(January/March 1876 in Bystock Terrace, St Thomas, Exeter,

– 2 February 1951 in

), married Gladys Jean Mosley, and had at least one daughter: ** Janet Mercedes Bryce (b. 29 September 1937 in Bermuda), married in 1960 to

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The Mountbattens of Milford Haven ancestry
/ref> * Victor Felix Peter Bryce (1878 – January 1963). He never married and had no children * Edward Daniel Bryce (22 April 1879, Withycombe Raleigh, St. Thomas, Devonshire – May 1936), married Vera Frances Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons in 1919, and divorced in 1932. They had no children. Vera was the third daughter of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Bart. and Laura Julia Stern, both from prominent Anglo-Jewish families (Laura Stern's father was one of the wealthiest men of the Victorian era with a fortune of £3.5m at his death in 1887, the equivalent of £293m today) * Mary Mercedes Bryce (b. 1882), married to Col. Joseph Harold John Phillips, of Royston. They had two sons: ** Lt.-Cdr. Charles Edward Harold John Phillips, married in 1951 Tanis Eva Bulkeley Guinness, of the banking line of the

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** Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips (6 November 1909 – 27 October 1980), married in 1944

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. They had five children: *** Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (b. 27 February 1946) *** Nicholas Harold Phillips (23 August 1947 – 1 March 1991) *** Fiona Mercedes

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(b. 30 March 1951) *** Marita Georgina Crawley (b. 28 May 1954) *** Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (b. 8 May 1959)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bryce, John Pablo 1846 births High Sheriffs of Devon Year of death unknown 1897 deaths Peruvian emigrants to the United Kingdom Peruvian people of Scottish descent