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Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle

The Right Honourable
The Lord Monteagle of Brandon
PC FRS FGS
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
18 April 1835 – 26 August 1839
Monarch William IV
Victoria
Prime Minister The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Succeeded by Francis Baring
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
In office
5 June 1834 – 14 November 1834
Monarch William IV
Prime Minister The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by Edward Smith-Stanley
Succeeded by The Duke of Wellington
Comptroller General of the Exchequer
In office
18 April 1835 – 7 February 1866
Monarch William IV
Victoria
Preceded by Sir John Newport, Bt.
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born 8 February 1790 (2017-01-19UTC12:05:57)
Died 17 February 1866(1866-02-17) (aged 76)
Nationality British
Political party Whig
Spouse(s) (1) Lady Theodosia Pery
(d. 1839)
(2) Marianne Marshall
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Religion Church of Ireland

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon PC FRS FGS (8 February 1790 – 7 February 1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.

Spring Rice was born into a notable Anglo-Irish family, which owned large estates in Munster. He was one of the three children of Stephen Edward Rice (d.1831), of Mount Trenchard House, and Catherine Spring, daughter and heiress of Thomas Spring of Ballycrispin and Castlemaine, County Kerry, a descendant of the Suffolk Spring family. He was a great grandson of Sir Stephen Rice (1637–1715), Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and a leading Jacobite, Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry and Walter Spring. His only married sister, Mary, was the mother of the Catholic converts Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet, and the Liberal Member of Parliament, Sir Stephen de Vere, 4th Baronet. Spring Rice's grandfather, Edward, had converted the family from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican Church of Ireland, to save his estate from passing in gavelkind.


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