James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
(1838-1922), Jurist, historian and Liberal politician; MP for Tower Hamlets and Aberdeen SouthSitter in 15 portraits
A Fellow at Oxford University, Bryce came to prominence as a historian through his 1864 work The Holy Roman Empire. His Essays on Reform was hugely successful, running through sixty-five editions by 1958. He was called to the Bar in 1867 and practised law in London for a few years, before returning to Oxford as Regius Professor of Civil Law. An ardent Liberal, he was elected to parliament in 1880 where he served in a number of senior posts including President of the Board of Trade. In 1905 the Liberals were re-elected after a decade in opposition. Bryce was made Chief Secretary for Ireland and swiftly thereafter was appointed British Ambassador to the United States of America.
Algernon Charles Swinburne with nine of his peers at Oxford
by Hills & Saunders
albumen print, circa 1859-1860
NPG P416
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3425
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3557
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce; Sir John Charles Frederick Sigismund Day
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, published in The Graphic 2 March 1889
NPG 2249
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Harold Wright ('Stuff')
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, 1893
NPG 6749
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Ernest Moore
oil on canvas, 1907
NPG 1970
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Boardman Robinson
ink, 1913
NPG 4551
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd
carbon print, published 1893
NPG Ax16152
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 1898
NPG x8919
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by George Charles Beresford
dry-plate glass negative, 1902
NPG x6451
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by George Charles Beresford
vintage print, 1902
NPG x4839
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Reginald Haines
bromide print, published 1913
NPG x134975
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG x166190
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax46104
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce ('Statesmen. No. 609.')
by Harold Wright ('Stuff')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 25 February 1893
NPG D44635
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