Transcript

of

John Pablo Bryce [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XXXIV, (1902), p. 33.

by

J. Brooking-Rowe (Ed.).

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1902 Bideford meeting. Mr Bryce was a man of affairs and a member of the British gentry. He was Sheriff of Devon in 1896. The son of John Paul Bryce, founder of the Bryce & Co. ship company and the General South American Bank, and full partner in the W. R. Grace and Company, who went to Peru between 1837 and 1862, where he married at Callao, on 11 June 1845 Gertrudis María de los Dolores de Vivero y Morales (Lima, 16 November 1824 - Paris, 1895); paternal grandson of Francis Bryce and first wife Janet Weddle, and maternal grandson of José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverría, Governor of Guayaquil, and wife Lucía Morales. Wikipedia has an impressive summary of his life and relationships. Mr Bryce’s surprisingly brief obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

John Pablo Bryce, of Bystock House, Withycombe Raleigh, and of Marley Lodge, was a life member, elected in 1879. He died at Rome 3rd March, 1901, and was buried in the family vault adjoining the church and yard of St. John-in-the- Wilderness on the 28th January, 1902.