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Robert Jardine; Kimmerghame, the residence of Mr Campbell 
Swinton ; Broadstone, the residence of Mr J. Birkmyre ; and Wood- 
croft, the residence of Colonel Davidson. All these are in the old 
baronial style. In other styles are Panmure House (Elizabethan): 
Langton, near Dunse, the seat of Lady Elizabeth Pringle (Eliza- 
bethan) ; Portmore, the residence of Mr Mackenzie (Elizabethan); 
Kinnaird Castle (French); Belladrum, the property of Mr Merry, 
M.P. (French) ; Eastburgh, the residence of Mr Carnegy (French) ; 
and Kincaid Castle, the seat of the Earl of Southesk. In adopting 
these different styles MrBryce was not a mere copyist ; he impressed 
upon all his work the stamp of his own taste and genius. Essen- 
tially an artist, he had a fine perception of harmony, and he sought 
always to bring his buildings into fitness for the place they had to 
occupy, and into harmony with the surrounding scenery, so as to 
make them part of one great picture. “ When he had a work on 
hand where anything like scope was allowed to his powers, he 
wrought upon it as a painter does upon his easel, recurring to it 
again and again, altering proportions and rearranging the grouping 
of masses, and in doing this he did not hesitate occasionally to 
obliterate what had cost him much labour.”* 
Mr Bryce stood high in his profession, and his name will remain, 
along with those of Adam, Hamilton, and Playfair, among those 
of the greatest of modern architects. He was Grand Architect for 
Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 
and a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, as well as a Fellow 
of this Society. He was a man of varied acquirements, of high integ- 
rity, and of a genial disposition. Under a blunt manner, and some- 
what rough exterior, there lay in him a kindly nature and a generous 
heart; and, whilst his society was much sought after by his friends, 
he drew to him the esteem alike of his servants and his employers. 
He died on the 7th of May last, in his seventy-fourth year. He 
became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. 
George Stirling Home-Drummond was the eldest son of the late 
Henry Home-Drummond, Esq. of Blair-Drummond, and great- 
grandson of the celebrated Henry Home Lord Karnes. His father 
was for many years member of Parliament, first, before the passing 
« The Builder,” as above. 
