Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
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The Right Honourable The Lord Monteagle of Brandon PC FRS FGS |
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| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 18 April 1835 – 26 August 1839 |
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| 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 | |
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In office 5 June 1834 – 14 November 1834 |
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| Monarch | William IV |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | Edward Smith-Stanley |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Wellington |
| Comptroller General of the Exchequer | |
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In office 18 April 1835 – 7 February 1866 |
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| Monarch |
William IV Victoria |
| Preceded by | Sir John Newport, Bt. |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 February 1790 |
| Died | 17 February 1866 (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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