Sir Hervey Bruce, 4th Baronet explained

Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet JP DL (5 October 1843 – 8 May 1919)^[1] was High Sheriff of County Londonderry in 1903.^[2]

Early life

He was the son of Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet of Downhill, County Londonderry, and Marianne Margaret Juckes-Clifton (a daughter of Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet, of Clifton).^[3]

Bruce was educated at Eton College.^[3]

Career

He entered the British Army at the age of 19, was an officer in the Coldstream Guards from 1862 until his retirement as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1878.^[3]

In 1896, he succeeded his second cousin Henry Robert Clifton to the Clifton estates in Nottinghamshire, after which Clifton Hall became the family's primary residence. Upon the death of his father in 1907, he succeeded as the 5th baronet of Downhill. He served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant.^[3]

Personal life

In 1872 he married Ellen Maud Ricardo (d. 1924), a daughter of stockbroker Percy Ricardo of Bramley Park, Guildford, Surrey,^[4] and the former Matilda Mawdesley Hensley (a daughter of John Isaac Hensley of Holborn, Middlesex). Among her siblings were Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March (wife of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, before he inherited the dukedom), Col. Horace Ricardo, and Col. F. C. Ricardo. Together, they had four sons, including:^[3]

• Sir Hervey Ronald Bruce, 5th Baronet (1872–1924), who married Margaret Florence Jackson; he inherited Downhill.^[3]
• Percy Robert Bruce, later Clifton (1872–1944),^[5] who married Aletheia Georgina Paget, a daughter of Sir Richard Paget, 1st Baronet. After her death in 1904, he married Evelyn Mary Amelia Leith, daughter of Maj. Thomas Leith of Petmathen; he inherited Clifton Hall and the Clifton estate.^[3]
• Henry James Bruce CMG MVO (1880–1951), a diplomat who married the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, a daughter of Platon Karsavin and former wife of civil servant Vasili Vasilievich Mukhin.^[6]

Sir Hervey died in Tangiers on 8 May 1919 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Hervey.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Sir Hervey Bruce. The Times (London, England), Monday, May 12, 1919; pg. 16; Issue 42097
2. ‘BRUCE, Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 April 2017
3. Web site: Biography of Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce (1843-1919) . www.nottingham.ac.uk . . 28 May 2024.
4. The house later became the home of Gertrude Jekyll: Web site: Surrey's most impressive country houses, past and present. 9 July 2013. Surrey Life. 12 September 2018.
5. Web site: Biography of Percy Robert Clifton, formerly Bruce (1872-1944) . www.nottingham.ac.uk . . 28 May 2024.
6. ‘BRUCE, Henry James’, in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 17 January 2011
7. ‘BRUCE, Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd’’, in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 17 January 2011