"1st Baron Aberdare" Henry Bruce Hand Written Note Dated 1880 for Sale

"1st Baron Aberdare" Henry Bruce Hand Written Note Dated 1880 For Sale

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"1st Baron Aberdare" Henry Bruce Hand Written Note Dated 1880:
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Up for sale the "1st Baron Aberdare" Henry Bruce Hand Written Note Dated 1880.

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Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, GCB, PC, JP, DL, FRS, FRHistS (16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government

most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873)

and as Lord President of the Council. Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner, and his first wife Sarah,

daughter of Reverend Hugh Williams Austin. John Bruce's original family name

was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his

mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of

William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire. Henry was educated from the age

of twelve at the Bishop Gore

School, Swansea (Swansea Grammar School). In 1837 he was called

to the bar

from Lincoln's Inn.[2] Shortly after he had begun to

practice, the discovery of coal beneath the Duffryn and other Aberdare Valley estates

brought his family great wealth. From 1847 to 1854 Bruce was stipendiary