Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare

The Right Honourable The Lord Aberdare GCB PC JP DL FRS FRHistS
Lord President of the Council
In office 9 August 1873 – 21 February 1874
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	The Earl de Grey and Ripon
Succeeded by	The Duke of Richmond
Home Secretary
In office 9 December 1868 – 9 August 1873
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	Gathorne Hardy
Succeeded by	Robert Lowe
Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education
In office 26 April 1864 – 26 June 1866
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russel
Preceded by	Robert Lowe
Succeeded by	Henry Lowry-Corry
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of state for Home Affairs
In office 14 November 1862 – 25 April 1864
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston
Preceded by	George Clive
Succeeded by	Thomas Baring
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal In office 23 August 1873 – 25 February 1895 Hereditary peerage Preceded by Peerage created Succeeded by The 2nd Lord Aberdare Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire In office 25 January 1869 – 23 August 1873 Preceded by Archibald Alexander Speirs Succeeded by Archibald Campbell Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil In office 14 December 1852 – 11 November 1868 Preceded by Sir John Josiah Guest Succeeded by Henry Richard
Personal details
Born	Henry Austin Bruce (1815-04-16)16 April 1815 Aberdare, Glamorganshire
Died	25 February 1895 (1895-02-26) (aged 79) South Kensington, London
Resting place	Aberffrwd Cemetery, Mountain Ash
Political party	Liberal
Spouses	Annabella Beadon ​ ​ (m. 1846; died 1852)​ Norah Napier ​ (m. 1854)​
Education	Swansea Grammar School
Alma mater	Lincoln's Inn

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, JP, DL, FRS, FRHistS (16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895), was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council.^[1]