A collection of letters related to the British barrister and politician, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare.

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).

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