Aberdare, LORD — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Aberdare, LORD. Henry Austin Bruce was born at Duffryn, in Glamorganshire, in 1815. He was called to the bar in 1837, and in 1852 was returned by Merthyr-Tydvil to the House of Commons as a Liberal. He was Home Secretary under Gladstone in 1868, was raised to the peerage in 1873, and President of the Council in 1873-74. After him as President of the Royal Geographical Society the Aberdare Range (see AFRICA, p. 81) was named. He died 25th February 1895.