| Lloyd Bryce | |
| Office2: | U.S. Minister to the Netherlands |
| President2: | William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson |
| Term Start2: | November 16, 1911 |
| Term End2: | September 10, 1913 |
| Predecessor2: | Arthur M. Beaupre |
| Successor2: | Henry van Dyke |
| Office1: | U.S. Minister to Luxembourg |
| Term Start1: | December 7, 1911 |
| Term End1: | September 10, 1913 |
| Predecessor1: | Arthur M. Beaupre |
| Successor1: | Henry van Dyke |
| President1: | William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson |
| State3: | New York |
| District3: | 7th |
| Term Start3: | March 4, 1887 |
| Term End3: | March 3, 1889 |
| Preceded3: | John J. Adams |
| Succeeded3: | Edward J. Dunphy |
| Birth Name: | Lloyd Stephens Bryce |
| Birth Date: | September 20, 1851 |
| Birth Place: | Flushing, New York |
| Death Place: | Mineola, New York |
| Parents: | Joseph Smith Bryce |
| Children: | 3, including Edith |
| Party: | Democratic Party |
| Alma Mater: | Georgetown University Christ Church, Oxford Columbia Law School |
| Allegiance: |  United States |
| Branch: | State Militia |
| Rank: | Brigadier General |
| Signature: | Signature of Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851–1917).png |
Lloyd Stephens Bryce (September 20, 1851 – April 2, 1917) was an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1887 to 1889. He was also an author and magazine editor.
Lloyd Stephens Bryce was born in Flushing, New York on September 20, 1851. His father, Joseph Smith Bryce (1808–1901), graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1829, Robert E. Lee was second, and served as a Union Army Major in the Civil War, engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C.
Lloyd's sister was Clemence Smith Bryce, who married Nicholas Fish, the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Belgium, and was the mother of Hamilton Fish II. He was a nephew of John L. Stevens, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii.
He attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. Bryce also studied at Columbia Law School.
Bryce was an avid sports enthusiast, and wrote that sports were capable both of quelling revolutionary thought among the poor and promoting understanding between nations. He was a frequent participant in polo matches in Newport, Rhode Island[1] and Manhattan and fox hunts on Long Island.[2]
Bryce, a Democrat, became interested in politics. In 1886, Governor David B. Hill appointed him to the governor's staff as Paymaster General of the militia with the rank of Brigadier General, a largely ceremonial position. Afterwards he was known as General Bryce.[3]
Bryce was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress.[4]
He was appointed Minister to the Netherlands on August 12, 1911, and he served until September 10, 1913.[5]
His friend C. Allen Thorndike Rice, the editor and owner of the North American Review, died unexpectedly in 1889 and left the magazine to Bryce in his will. Bryce was the owner and editor from 1889 to 1896.[4]
Influenced by his experience in Congress he wrote an early "Yellow Peril" story, called Dream of Conquest for the June 1889 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. His other published works include: Paradise: A Novel (1888); Romance of an Alter Ego (1889); Friends in Exile (1893); and Lady Blanche's Salon (1899).
In 1879,[6] he married Edith Cooper (1854–1916),[7] the only child of New York City Mayor Edward Cooper,[8] and granddaughter of the famous industrialist Peter Cooper.[9] [10] Together, they were the parents of:
Bryce died in Mineola, New York, April 2, 1917, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of his estate, worth $1,665,061,[18] was left to his two daughters, with his son receiving all his paintings, including a portrait by Godfrey Kneller, books, engravings, and clothing.[19] His home at 1025 Fifth Avenue was left to his children in four equal shares, two to his son and one to each of his daughters.[19]
His grandson, Henry Sergeant Cram (1907–1997), married Edith Kingdon Drexel (1911–1934), the granddaughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel, Jr. and George Jay Gould I, in 1930.[20] Cram later married Ruth Vaux, a granddaughter of Richard Vaux, after his first wife's death.[21] His granddaughter, Edith Bryce Cram (1908–1972), married Arthur Gerhard in 1950.[22]