John Annan Bryce

John Annan Bryce (12 August 1843 – 25 June 1923)

Background and family He was the son of the schoolmaster and geologist James Bryce and his wife Margaret Young, daughter of James Young. His elder brother was the 1st Viscount Bryce.

Bryce was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, winning the Brackenbury Scholarship. He studied first at the University of Edinburgh, then made his Master of Arts at the University of Glasgow. Career Bryce worked as merchant in India He was the director of Naval Construction & Armaments Co in 1907 and became then the director of Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway until 1914. Following his first election, he was appointed to the Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland, in which he stayed for two years.

Grave

He is buried with his parents in the south-west section of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh at the west end of the central east–west avenue, facing south.