James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

The Right Honourable The Viscount Bryce OM GCVO PC FRS FBA
1st Viscount Bryce in 1902
British Ambassador to the United States
In office 1907–1913
Monarch	Edward VII George V
President	Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft
Prime Minister	Sir Henry C-Bannerman H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
Succeeded by	Sir Cecil Spring Rice
Chief Secretary for Ireland
In office 10 December 1905 – 23 January 1907
Monarch	Edward VII
Prime Minister	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Preceded by	Walter Long
Succeeded by	Augustine Birrell
President of the Board of Trade
In office 28 May 1894 – 21 June 1895
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by	A. J. Mundella
Succeeded by	Charles Thomson Ritchie
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 18 August 1892 – 28 May 1894
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	The Duke of Rutland
Succeeded by	The Lord Tweedmouth
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 7 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	Gladstone
Preceded by	Hon. Robert Bourke
Succeeded by	Sir James Fergusson, Bt
Personal details
Born	(1838-05-10)10 May 1838 Belfast, Ireland
Died	22 January 1922(1922-01-22) (aged 83) Sidmouth, Devon, South West England
Political party	Liberal
Alma mater	University of Glasgow, University of Oxford
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Academic
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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.

Bryce was born in Arthur Street, Belfast, County Antrim, the son of James Bryce, LL.D., of Glasgow, by his wife Margaret, daughter of James Young of Whiteabbey, County Antrim. The first eight years of his life were spent residing at his grandfather's Whiteabbey residence, often playing for hours on the tranquil picturesque shoreline. John Annan Bryce was his younger brother. He was educated under his uncle Reuben John Bryce at the Belfast Academy,Glasgow High School, the University of Glasgow, the University of Heidelberg and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, in 1862 and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1867. His days as a student at the University of Heidelberg gave him a long-life admiration of German historical and legal scholarship. He became a believer in "Teutonic freedom", an ill-defined concept that was held to bind Germany, Britain, and the United States together. For him, the United States, the British Empire and Germany were "natural friends".