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London 1947 Constable. Memoirs of life in St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, England. Hardcover. Small octavo, 183pp., photo illustrations, cloth. VG, front hinge tender, in Good DJ, fraying on the edges.
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(London published Biography)
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A younger son of Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet (1843–1919), by his marriage to Ellen Maud Ricardo Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Bruce was one of four sons. His father, who was an officer of the Coldstream Guards, had country houses at Clifton Hall, near Nottingham, and Downhill, County Londonderry, and owned altogether some 22,000 acres. Like his father and brothers, Bruce was educated at Eton.
Eton College.
In the 1930s, he was an adviser to the National Bank of Hungary, and in retirement wrote books about his life. Bruce"s youth at Clifton is recalled in his book Silken Dalliance (1946). In 1904 Bruce entered the Foreign Office, and in 1905 was sent to Vienna as a junior diplomat in the British mission to the Austrian Empire.
In 1906 he was appointed Third Secretary there.
In 1908 he transferred to the British Embassy in Berlin, where he was promoted a Second Secretary in May 1911. In 1913 he went to Saint St. Petersburg, soon to be renamed Petrograd, where he became First Secretary in 1918.
In 1915, Bruce married the Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina (1885–1978). Bruce retired the British diplomatic service in 1920 and the next year became Secretary General of the British delegation to the Interallied Commission for Bulgaria, going on to serve as British Delegate from 1924 to 1926.
He was an adviser to the National Bank of Hungary from 1931 to 1939, when with the outbreak of the Second World War he returned to the United Kingdom.
In retirement, Bruce began to write books One reviewer wrote of his Silken Dalliance (1946) "lieutenant is more than silken dalliance that "in the wardrobe lies". A whole era of English history had the door shut on it in 1914, and nothing quite like it will ever be seen again.
lieutenant is this era that Mr Bruce set out to capture for us."
In 1949 Bruce became treasurer of the Peabody Donation Fund.
He died on 10 September 1951.
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(London 1947 Constable. Memoirs of life in St. Petersburg,...)
He was a member of the Street James"s Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club.
