He was the son of John Paul Bryce (1817 in
Edinburgh – 9 March 1888 in
Biarritz), 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 (
Lima, 16 November 1824 -
Paris, 1895).
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.
He married in Paris in 1870/71 with María de las Mercedes González de Candamo e Iriarte (24 May 1849 in
Lima – 2 August 1929 in
San Sebastián), sister of
Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte (1841–1904), President of Peru (1903–1904). They had, at least, five sons and two daughters:[2]
Virginia Gertrudis Bryce (b. 1872), married to Capt. Hugh Gainford, of
Ontario,
Canada
Paul John Bryce[3] (b. circa 1873 at
Paris – December 1892 at
Oxford)
Charles Alexander Bryce[4] (b. 1875 – d. circ. before 1923), Captain of the
Coldstream Guards, married Mrs Marion Evelyn Barclay née Ives (1874-1950, who remarried as her third husband in 1923 to the 2nd
Baron Phillimore), daughter of Major-General Cecil Robert St John Ives and Hon. Susan Ann
Talbot. They had one son:
Victor Felix Peter Bryce (1878 – January 1963). He never married and had no children
Edward Daniel Bryce (22 April 1879, Withycombe Raleigh, St. Thomas, Devonshire – May 1936), 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 (Laura Stern's father
Hermann de Stern was one of the wealthiest men of the Victorian era with a fortune of £3.5m at his death in 1887, the equivalent of £293m today)[2]
Mary Mercedes Bryce (b. 1882), married to Col. Joseph Harold John Phillips, of
Royston. They had two sons: