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The Huntington Library
Title: Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare, correspondence
Creator:
Aberdare, Henry Austin
Bruce, Baron, 1815-1895
Identifier/Call Number: mssAberdare
Physical Description:
9.6 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1843-1923
Abstract: A collection of letters related to the
British barrister and politician, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare, correspondence, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Alta California Bookstore, 1970.
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (1815-1895) was a barrister and politician. He was
a Liberal member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydvil (1852 to 1868) and for Renfrewshire (1869
to 1873); Undersecretary (1862 to 1864) and Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1869 to
1873); admitted to the Privy Council in 1864 as Vice President of the Committee of Council
on Education; a charity commissioner for England and Wales (1864); peer (1873) appointed by
William Ewart Gladstone Lord President of the Council; the first president (1883 to 1895)
and first chancellor (1895) of University College of South Wales; Fellow of the Royal
Society (1876); member of the Royal Geographical Society (1876), and governor of the Royal
Niger Company (1886).
A collection of letters addressed to Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare. The letters
include a wide variety of subjects, including women in medicine, Scottish commercial
fishing, capital punishment, education, patronage in church and state, electioneering,
English and Irish politics, the Royal Horticulture Society, the Royal Geographical Society,
and the Sanitary Law Commission.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff in approximately 1975; in November 2023, Gayle M.
Richardson created the finding aid.
Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.
Former call number: mssAberdare correspondence.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Capital punishment –- Great Britain -– History –- 19th
century
Educators -- Great Britain
Fisheries -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Patronage, Ecclesiastical -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th
century
Patronage, Political –- Great Britain –- History –- 19th
century
Politicians -- Great Britain
Women in medicine -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -– Politics and government -- 19th century
Ireland -- Politics and Government -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence)
Liberal Party (Great
Britain)
Royal Geographical Society
(Great Britain)
Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
Sanitary Law Commission (Great Britain)