Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan

Glamorgan

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 23 August 1873 for the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician Henry Bruce

Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary and as Lord President of the Council....

. He served as Home Secretary

Home Secretary

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 from 1868 to 1873. His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier, cricketer and tennis player and a member of the International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

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. His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration

Conservative Government 1970-1974

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.incompleteSource: D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000...

 of Edward Heath

Edward Heath

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 and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords

House of Lords

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. Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

Coat of arms

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Or, a saltire gules, on a chief of the last a martlet of the field.

Barons Aberdare (1873)

• Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
  Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
  Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary and as Lord President of the Council....
  
   (1815–1895)
• Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare
  Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare
  Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare VD, DL, JP , styled The Honourable from 1873 to 1895, was a British soldier and peer.-Background:...
  
   (1851–1914)
• Clarence Napier Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare
  Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare
  Clarence Napier Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, GBE , styled The Honourable from 1895 to 1929, was a British military officer, cricketer, tennis player, and also an excellent golfer...
  
   (1885–1957)
• Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
  Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
  Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, KBE, PC, DL was a Conservative politician, and from 1999 until his death, one of ninety-two elected hereditary peers in the British House of Lords...
  
   (1919–2005)
• Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare
  Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare
  Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare is the son of Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare and Maud Helen Sarah Dashwood, daughter of Sir John Dashwood, 10th Baronet...
  
   (b. 1947)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Hector Morys Napier Bruce (b. 1974)