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 | | 1895), English statesman, was born at Dufiryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, on the i6th of April 1815, the son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner. |
 | | John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce, his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, having been the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire. |
 | | ABERDARE, a market town of Glamorganshire, Wales, situated (as the name implies) at the confluence of the Dar and Cynon, the latter being a tributary of the Taff. |
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