Mount Bryce

British Columbia. Mount
Just inside BC-Alberta boundary, NE of Bush Arm, Kinbasket Lake
52.0408 N -117.33 W — Map 83 C/3 — GoogleGeoHackBivouac
Name officially adopted in 1924
Official in BCTopo map from Canadian Geographical Names
Elevation: 3507 m
Privy Councillor, Professor and Politician. The Right Honourable James Bryce.
Published in Vanity Fair 25 February 1893

Privy Councillor, Professor and Politician. The Right Honourable James Bryce.
Published in Vanity Fair 25 February 1893
National Portrait Gallery (UK)


Named in 1898 by British alpinist John Norman Collie [1859–1942] after Rt. Hon. James Bryce (1838 – 1922), historian, diplomat, then-president of the Alpine Club (London); later Viscount Bryce, British Ambassador to United States, 1907-13.

Bryce’s chief contributions to historical and constitutional literature are The Holy Roman Empire The American Commonwealth.

Bryce was also an enthusiastic mountaineer; he explored the highlands of Hungary, Poland, and Iceland, and was one of the first climbers to scale Mount Ararat.

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