short time in the Australian gold-fields in 1851, he purchased a farm near Wanganui and remained a farmer for the next fifty years. In 1859, Bryce started
A-Levels at Gordonstoun before spending part of his gap year teaching at Wanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand. He then went up to read history at Jesus
a small jeweller. After settling in Wanganui, however, he took an opportunity to found a newspaper, The Wanganui Herald. He became the editor, and remained