John Pablo Bryce
John Pablo Bryce of Bystock Court, Exmouth, Devon was an Anglo-Peruvian guano millionaire and member of the British gentry.
Family
He was the son of John Paul Bryce, founder of the Bryce & Co. ship company and the General South American Bank, and full partner in the W. R. Grace and Company, who went to Peru between 1837 and 1862, where he married at Callao, on 11 June 1845 Gertrudis María de los Dolores de Vivero y Morales.He was the paternal grandson of Francis Bryce and first wife Janet Weddle, and maternal grandson of José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverría, Governor of Guayaquil, and wife Lucía Morales.
Biography
He held the office of Sheriff of Devon in 1896.Marriage and issue
He married in Paris in 1870/71 with María de las Mercedes González de Candamo e Iriarte, sister of Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte, President of Peru. They had, at least, five sons and two daughters:- Virginia Gertrudis Bryce, married to Capt. Hugh Gainford, of Ontario, Canada
- Paul John Bryce
- Charles Alexander Bryce, Captain of the Coldstream Guards, married Mrs Marion Evelyn Barclay née Ives, daughter of Major-General Cecil Robert St John Ives and Hon. Susan Ann Talbot. They had one son:
- *John Felix Charles "Ivar" Bryce, Lord of the manor of Moyns Park, married firstly Vera de Sà Sottomaior, of São Paulo, Brazil then secondly Josephine Hartford O'Donnell, the A&P heiress and sister of Huntington Hartford. Bryce was a close friend of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series of spy novels
- Francis Bryce of Hamilton, Bermuda, married Gladys Jean Mosley, and had at least one daughter:
- * Janet Mercedes Bryce, married in 1960 to David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
- Victor Felix Peter Bryce. He never married and had no children
- Edward Daniel Bryce, married Vera Frances Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons in 1919, and divorced in 1932. They had no children. Vera was the third daughter of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Bart. and Laura Julia Stern, both from prominent Anglo-Jewish families
- Mary Mercedes Bryce, married to Col. Joseph Harold John Phillips, of Royston. They had two sons:
- * Lt.-Cdr. Charles Edward Harold John Phillips, married in 1951 Tanis Eva Bulkeley Guinness, of the banking line of the Guinness family
- * Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips, married in 1944 Georgina Wernher, daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet and Countess Anastasia de Torby. They had five children:
- ** Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
- ** Nicholas Harold Phillips
- ** Fiona Mercedes Burnett of Leys
- ** Marita Georgina Crawley
- ** Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster