Lloyd Bryce

Lloyd Stephens Bryce (September 4, 1851 – April 2, 1917) was a U.S. Representative from New York and prominent magazine editor.

His father, Joseph Smith Bryce, graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1829. (Robert E. Lee was second). J. S. Bryce was a Union Army Major in the Civil War, engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C.

Lloyd Bryce was born in Flushing, New York on September 4, 1851. He attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. Bryce also studied at Columbia Law School.

Bryce was an avid sports enthusiast, and wrote that sports were capable both of quelling revolutionary thought among the poor and promoting understanding between nations. He was a frequent participant in polo matches in Newport, Rhode Island and Manhattan and fox hunts on Long Island.

Bryce, a Democrat, became interested in politics. In 1886 Governor David B. Hill appointed him to the governor's staff as Paymaster General of the militia with the rank of Brigadier General, a largely ceremonial position. Afterwards he was known as General Bryce.

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