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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
magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare,
resigning the position in the latter year, after entering parliament as Liberal
member for Merthyr Tydfil.
