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post he resigned in order to enter Parliament as member for that 

 borough in 1852. He held this seat for sixteen years. At the 

 General Election of 1868 he was defeated; but soon afterwards he 

 was offered a seat in Renfrewshire, which he held for five years. 



In 1862 Lord Palmerston selected Mr. Brace for the post of Under- 

 Secretary of State for the Home Deportment, and in 1864 he became 

 Vice-President of the Committee of Council of Education. 



On the formation of Mr. Gladstone's Government in 1868, Mr. 

 Bruce became Secretary of State for the Home Department, and, in 

 1873, Lord Piesident of the Council, being at the same time raised to 

 the Peerage. 



After the fall of Mr. Gladstone's Government he ceased to take an 

 active part in political life, and devoted himself chiefly to social and 

 educational questions, in which he had always shown a deep interest. 

 In 1875 he presided at the meeting of the Social Science Congress at 

 Brighton, and chose for the subject of his address, " Crime and its 

 Remedies." 



In 1859 he became a Fellow of the Geographical Society, and, in 

 1880, was elected President of that Society, an office which he held — 

 with the exception of one year — till 1887. 



Lord Aberdare was President of the University Colleges of 

 Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and took an active part in the foundation 

 of the University of Wales, or which he was nominated the first 

 Chancellor. 



The last important work in which he engaged was the Royal 

 Commission on the Aged Poor, of which he was Chairman. On this 

 inquiry, and the conclusions to be drawn frOm it, he bestowed from 

 first to last the same heen interest and ungrudging labour which he 

 had always given to practical questions affecting the welfare of 

 mankind; but he did not live to sign the Report. The charm of his 

 character and conversation will live long in the memory of those who 

 knew him. 



A. V. H. 



Geokge Edward Dobson was born September 4, 1848, in connty 

 Longford, Ireland, being the eldest son of Mr. Parke Dobson, of 

 Killinagh, county Westmeath. He was educated at the Royal School 

 of Enniskillen and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated 

 BA. in 1866, M.B. and M.Ch. in 1867, and M.A. in 1875. He was 

 fiist Senior Moderator and first Gold Medallist in Experimental 

 and Natural Science, Classical Honourman andStearnes Exhibitioner, 

 and Member of the Senate of Dublin University. He entered the 

 Army M dical Service in 18t58, and retired in 1888, with the rank of 

 Suigeon-Major. His " Essay on the Diagnosis and Pathology of the 

 Injuries and Diseases of the Shoulder- joint," was awarded the Go'd 



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