Bryce, James

Bryce, James, author and politician, was born at Belfast, 10th May 1838, and educated at Glasgow University, and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1862 as double first. Called to the bar in 1867, he was in 1870-93 regius professor of Civil Law at Oxford, and entered parliament in 1880. In 1886 he was made Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, and in 1892 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. A strong home-ruler, he has been active in connection with university reform, the Eastern question, commons and access to mountains, and copyright; and is author of The Holy Roman Empire (1864; 9th ed. 1888), Transcaucasia and Ararat (1877), and The American Commonwealth (3 vols. 1888; new ed. 1890).