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Francis Bryce OBE (January/March 1876 in Bystock, St Thomas, Devon – 2 February 1951 in Bermuda) was a British military officer and the son of John Pablo Bryce, a member of the British gentry who served as sheriff of Devon.
Family
[edit]Bryce was born in 1876 and was the son of John Pablo Bryce and María de las Mercedes González de Candamo y Iriarte, who was the sister of Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte (1841–1904), President of Peru (1903–1904).
Biography
[edit]Bryce held the rank of Major in the service of the King's Royal Rifle Corps.[1] He was also an officer of the Order of the British Empire.[2] He lived in Hamilton, Bermuda.[3]
Marriage and issue
[edit]Bryce married on 11 October 1935, in New York City, Gladys Jean Mosley (1905–1992) and was the father of at least one daughter:[4]
- Janet Mercedes Bryce (Bermuda, 29 September 1937), who married on 17 November 1960 at St. Andrew's Church, Frognal, London, David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2694.
- ↑ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2694.
- ↑ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2694.
- ↑ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 183.
- ↑ The Mountbattens of Milford Haven ancestry