Charles Granville Bruce

Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 – 12 July 1939) was a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924. In recognition of the former he was awarded a special prize at the conclusion of the first ever Winter Olympics. Background and early life Charles Granville Bruce was the youngest of the fourteen children of Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815–1895) and Norah Napier (1827–1897). His mother was the youngest daughter of General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier. Bruce was educated at Harrow and Repton. His early life alternated between of Queen's Gate, London, the family home in Aberdare, and a Scottish estate.