Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet Bruce of Downhill, County Londonderry (1820-1909). (William Charles Ross, 1841)

Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet (22 September 1820 – 8 December 1907)[1] 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.[2] He was re-elected unopposed at the general elections in 1865 and 1868,[3] but was defeated at the 1874 general election by the Liberal candidate Daniel Taylor.[4] 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.[1] He held the office of County Grand Master of the County Grand Orange Lodge of Londonderry between 1855 and 1857 He was Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry from 1877 to 1907, and was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1889.[5]

His brother Lloyd Stuart Bruce, b. 1829 was the father of Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce, the wife of Robert Falcon Scott.

References

  1. ^ a b "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 99. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
  3. ^ Walker, op. cit., pages 102&198
  4. ^ Walker, op. cit., pages 115
  5. ^ "Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byJohn Boyd Member of Parliament for Coleraine 1862 – 1874 Succeeded byDaniel Taylor Preceded byDaniel Taylor Member of Parliament for Coleraine 1880 – 1885 Constituency abolished Baronetage of the United Kingdom Preceded byJames Robertson Bruce Baronet(of Downhill) 1836–1907 Succeeded byHervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce


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