BRUTON, James. Author of a few dramatic pieces and of many songs. d. Palace road, Westminster 5 March 1867 aged 52.
BRYAN, George Leopold. b. Ballyduff house 29 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Kilkenny 1852; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 24 July 1865 to 24 March 1880. d. 29 June 1880.
BRYCE, David. b. Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W. H. Smith the bookseller; compiled The confessional unmasked from Petrus Dens’s Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes 1832. d. 1 May 1875 aged 56.
BRYCE, David (son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edin. 3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to 1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S. Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland 1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of Scotland, all in Edinburgh. d. Edinburgh 7 May 1876. Builder xxxiv, 508 (1876); D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh (1873) 30, 341, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 216–8 (1878).
BRYCE, Rev. James (son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire). b. Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805; founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united with Scottish united presbyterian church. d. Killaig 24 April 1857.
BRYCE, Rev. James. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April 1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of Sketch of the state of British India 1810; On the ecclesiastical establishment of the Church of Scotland 1815; Ten years of the Church of Scotland 2 vols. 1850. d. Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in 82 year.
BRYCE, James (3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857). b. Killaig 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858; mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow; author of First principles of geography and astronomy 1848; General gazetteer 1859; Library gazetteer 1859; Geology of Arran 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of Loch Ness 11 July 1877. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 514 (1878).
BRYDGES, Sir John William Egerton, 2 Baronet. b. Canterbury Nov. 1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. d. Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb. 1858.
BRYDON, William. b. London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. Kaye’s History of war in Afghanistan, 3 ed. (1874) 389; I.L.N. lxii, 369 (1873), portrait; J. McCarthy’s A history of our own times, new ed. (1882) i, 161–95, iii, 8.
Note.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs. Thompson-Butler painted a portrait of him appearing under the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army” exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.