James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922)

Jurist, historian, and politician. Educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. Lifelong friend and collaborator of Albert Venn Dicey. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1862–89. Called to the bar, 1867. Liberal MP for Tower Hamlets, 1880–5; Aberdeen South, 1885–1907. Parliamentary under-secretary of foreign affairs, 1886; chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1892–4; president of the Board of Trade, 1894–5; chief secretary for Ireland, 1905–7; ambassador to the United States, 1907–13. Created Viscount Bryce, 1914.