Bryce
Bryce names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Bryce bris, James (1838-19-)
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
bris, James (1838-19-), a British historian and statesman. He was born at Belfast. His father was a Glasgow schoolmaster held in high repute for his scientific attainments. Young Bryce was educated in the high school at Glasgow and in the university of that city. Later, he was graduated with honors at Trinity College, Oxford. For a time he turned his attention to law, residing in Lincoln's Inn, London. From 1870 until 1893 he was Regius Professor of civil law at Oxford. In 1880 he entered Parliament, identifying himself with the Liberal party and the principle of home rule for Ireland. He has written several historical works. He is known best in America as the author of The Holy Roman Empire , and particularly of The American Commonwealth. The latter is the best exposition of our system of popular government that has yet appeared. It is in fact a monumental work, intelligent, sympathetic, full of courage and plain speaking. In 1905 Mr. Bryce. became a member of the British cabinet. In 1908 he was sent to Washington as an ambassador from the Court of St. James. One may doubt if such a living picture of Democracy in all its ways, in its strength and its weakness, its dangers and its future, in all its strange nakedness of appearance, and its amazing vitality and force, in its golden hopes, and its simplicity and limitations as of a raw, lucky, inexperienced youth entering on a matchless inheritance for good or for evil, has ever yet been drawn by a competent hand.--Frederic Harrison, Mr. Bryce's American Commonwealth.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES, VISCOUNT, an Irish historian, born in Belfast, May 10, 1838. After graduating at Oxford in 1862, he studied at Heidelberg, and subsequently practiced law in London. From 1870 till 1893 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford, and had a distinguished political career. He has supported Home Rule, city reforms, and international copyright. Chief Secretary for Ireland 1905-1906. He was ambassador to the United States 1907-1912, and was created Viscount Bryce of Dechmont in 1914. His chief works are "The Holy Roman Empire" (1864); "Transcaucasia and Ararat" (1877); "The American Commonwealth" (1888); "Studies in Contemporary Biography" (1903); "South America" (1912); "Addresses" (1913).
Bryce GEORGE, a Canadian educator and clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, a Canadian educator and clergyman, born in Mount Pleasant, Ontario, Ap April 22, 1844. He was graduated at the University of Toronto in 1867, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1871. His great work was the foundation of Manitoba College and in assisting the foundation of Manitoba University. He has written "Manitoba," and "A Short History of the Canadian People." VISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE
Bryce LLOYD, an American editor and novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LLOYD, an American editor and novelist, born in Long Island, N. Y., in 1852. He was editor of the "North American Review" from 1889 to 1896. His works are "Paradise," "A Dream of Conquest," "The Romance of an Alter Ego," "Friends in Exile," "The Literary Duet," etc. He died in 1917.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both accounts leave James Bryce's dates open — Aiton's in 1910 wrote "1838-19-" — and he died on 22 January 1922, within months of Collier's going to press, having published his last major work, "Modern Democracies," in 1921. "The American Commonwealth" (1888) has held the standing Aiton's claimed for it and is still read alongside Tocqueville, but Bryce's other great public act has not worn as well: the 1915 Bryce Report on German atrocities in Belgium, which neither entry mentions, mixed genuine crimes with unverified hearsay, and its later exposure made readers in the 1930s and 1940s slower to believe true reports of German atrocities. George Bryce continued at Manitoba until his death in 1931; Lloyd Bryce's Long Island estate later passed out of the family and became a public art museum.
Written for this edition, 2026.