THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10656, 11 June 1912, Page 5

THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT WASHIN GTGN , , . NOW ON A VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

]• i v The Right Hon. Jamtja Bryce, who is at present on a visit to New; Zealand,, lias occupied the onerous and honourable position of British Ambassador; and Plenipotentiary at Washington since 1907. (Soot on this father's side, Irish, on his mother's, he was horn in 1838, educated at the Glasgow High (School and , Glasgow University, and, later, at Trinity College, Oxford. He was a practising J barrister for some years, and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford from 1870 jto 1893. In 1880 he entered the House of Commons as member of the Tower Hamlets, and was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1886, and bias held other 'Ministerial positions in 'Liberal'administration®. 'iffis interest educational been life^loogiand be has cecdved numerous honorarj? , distinctions from European and American Universities and learned societies. His literary work'has been of the highest mtosb famous book' b©4 ing "The American Commonwealth," first published in 1888 and recognised by Americans as the aniost complete and broadest-minded exposition and critical survey of t*he American political and social system tibat has ever been written. In 1897 Mr Bryce published h.is "Impressions of South! Africa"'; in 1901, "Studies dn History and Jurisprudence"; in 1903, "Studies in Contemporary. • Biography."