Sir Henry Bruce, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet PC (Ire) (22 September 1820 – 8 December 1907)[1] was an Irish Conservative politician.

He was the eldest son of Ellen Hesketh (d. 1864) and Sir James Bruce, 2nd Baronet, an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery at Waterloo who served as a Vice-Lieutenant of County Londonderry.

[2][4] His grandfather, who was the brother of Sir Stewart Bruce, 1st Baronet, inherited Downhill House from their cousin, Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, and was created Baronet, of Downhill in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, in 1804.

Bruce was elected to the House of Commons at an unopposed by-election in 1862, following the death of the Conservative MP John Boyd.

Sir Henry died on 8 December 1909 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Hervey.