Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (28 January 1887 – 9 December 1946) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Spring Rice was the son of

Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon Commander Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1 October 1852 – 22 December 1937) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Spring Rice was the son of Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice, son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, a ...

, by his first wife, Elizabeth Ann FitzGerald. He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

and

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. Spring Rice served as an officer in the

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during the

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, leaving the army as a captain in 1919. He inherited his barony following the death of his father in 1937, when he took his seat as a

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in the

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. He lived at

Mount Trenchard House Mount Trenchard House is an Irish stately home located near Foynes, County Limerick, overlooking the River Shannon. It was the ancestral seat of the Rice, and subsequently Spring Rice, family. The estate was originally granted to Francis Trenc ...

. He married Emilie Frances de Kosenko, an

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heiress, on 14 April 1925 and they had three children.ThePeerage.com (entry #447986) http://www.thepeerage.com/p44799.htm#i447986 He was succeeded by his eldest son,

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20th-century Anglo-Irish people

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