sentences:  His father, Joseph Smith Bryce (1808–1901), graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1829, Robert E. Lee was second, and served as a Union Army Major in the Civil War, engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C. Lloyd's sister was Clemence Smith Bryce, who married Nicholas Fish, the U.S.Ambassador to Switzerland and Belgium, and was the mother of Hamilton Fish.He was a nephew of John L. Stevens, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii.