Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet JP DL (5 October 1843 – 8 May 1919) was

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in 1903.

Early life

He was the son of

Sir Henry Hervey 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 ( ...

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, and Marianne Margaret Juckes-Clifton (a daughter of

Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet (1769—1852) was 8th Baronet Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire. and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1820. Family He was the second son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet, and wife Frances. ...

, of Clifton). Bruce was educated at

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Career

He entered the

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at the age of 19, was an

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in the

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from 1862 until his retirement as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1878. In 1896, he succeeded his second cousin

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to the Clifton estates in Nottinghamshire, after which Clifton Hall became the family's primary residence. Upon the death of his father in 1907, he succeeded as the 5th baronet of Downhill. He served as a

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and Deputy Lieutenant.

Personal life

In 1872 he married Ellen Maud Ricardo (d. 1924), a daughter of stockbroker Percy Ricardo of

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, Guildford,

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, and the former Matilda Mawdesley Hensley (a daughter of John Isaac Hensley of

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). Among her siblings were

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(wife of

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 2nd Duke of Gordon, (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928), 7th Duke of Aubigny (French peerage in the French nobility), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 18 ...

, before he inherited the dukedom), Col. Horace Ricardo, and Col.

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. Together, they had four sons, including: * Sir Hervey Ronald Bruce, 5th Baronet (1872–1924), who married Margaret Florence Jackson; he inherited Downhill. * Percy Robert Bruce, ''later'' Clifton (1872–1944), who married Aletheia Georgina Paget, a daughter of

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. After her death in 1904, he married Evelyn Mary Amelia Leith, daughter of Maj. Thomas Leith of Petmathen; he inherited Clifton Hall and the Clifton estate. *

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CMG MVO (1880–1951), a diplomat who married the Russian ballerina

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, a daughter of Platon Karsavin and former wife of civil servant Vasili Vasilievich Mukhin.‘BRUCE, Henry James’, in ''

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'' (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
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, December 2007, accessed 17 January 2011 Sir Hervey died in

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on 8 May 1919 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Hervey.‘BRUCE, Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd’’, in ''Who Was Who'' (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
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References

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