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9 unusual facts about James Bryce


134th New York State Legislature

On March 9, UK Ambassador to the U.S. James Bryce addressed the members of the Senate and Assembly.

Irish Parliamentary Party

Labourers (Ireland) Acts (Bryce Act 1906 and Birrell Act 1911) (the Sheehan Acts), providing rural labourers with extensive housing

James Bryce

James W. Bryce (1880–1949), American inventor and pioneer in magnetic data recording

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922), British jurist, historian and politician

John Annan Bryce

He was the son of the politician James Bryce and his wife Margaret Young, daughter of James Young.

Mount Bryce

The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Viscount James Bryce, who was President of the Alpine Club in London at the time.

Rexford Tugwell

In his youth he gained an appreciation for workers’ rights and liberal politics from the works of Upton Sinclair, James Bryce, and Edward Bellamy.

Searches for Noah's Ark

In 1876, James Bryce, historian, statesman, diplomat, explorer, and Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, climbed above the tree line and found a slab of hand-hewn timber, four feet long and five inches thick, which he identified as being from the Ark.

Student Volunteer Movement

Convention speakers included such prominent individuals as former Secretary of State John W. Foster, Ambassador of Great Britain in the United States Henry Mortimer Durand and James Bryce.


Marshal Clarke

Clarke drew praise from the economist John A. Hobson in his treatise Imperialism for his devotion to the education and development of the native people of Basutoland, while Viscount Bryce noted that his approach fostered goodwill amongst native people towards Britain.


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