Sir Hervey Bruce, 4th Baronet
British baronet
Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet JP DL (5 October 1843 – 8 May 1919) was High Sheriff of County Londonderry in 1903.
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).
Bruce was educated at Eton College.
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.
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 4th baronet of Downhill. He served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant.
Personal life
In 1872 he married Ellen Maud Ricardo (d. 1924), a daughter of stockbroker Percy Ricardo of Bramley Park, Guildford, Surrey, 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.
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