Background
Son of John Paul Bryce (1817 in Edinburgh – 9 March 1888 in Biarritz), founder of the Bryce & Company ship company and the General South American Bank), 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). Paternal grandson of Francis Bryce and first wife Janet Weddle (married secondly to Jane Calder) and maternal grandson of José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverría and wife Lucía Morales.