Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameSir Cecil Arthur SPRING-RICE KCMG GCVO GCMG 
, 8271
, 8271Birth1859
Death1918
FatherThomas Charles William SPRING-RICE , 8267 (1819-1870)
MotherElizabeth Margaret MARSHALL , 8268
Spouses
1Florence Caroline LASCELLES, 8272
Birth1876
Death1961
FatherRt Hon Sir Frank Cavendish LASCELLES GCMG GCB PC GCVO , 10297 (1841-1920)
MotherMary Emma OLLIFFE , 10299 (1845-)
Marriage1904
Notes for Sir Cecil Arthur SPRING-RICE KCMG GCVO GCMG
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice GCMG GCVO (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.
Early life
Spring-Rice was the son of Hon. Thomas William Spring Rice, second son of the prominent Whig politician and former Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Spring-Rice went on to become the British Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran (1900), Commissioner of Public Debt in Cairo (1901) and Chargé d'Affaires in St. Petersburg (1903). He later served in Persia (1906) and Sweden (1908) before his appointment as ambassador to the United States in 1912. He was abruptly recalled in a one-line telegram, and died in Ottawa shortly thereafter, where he is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
According to , in his The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, "Spring-Rice was a born diplomat [who] invariably picked out and cultivated the most important person in any place".[1] He was well respected in London's diplomatic circles. Further, "he was one of [President] Theodore Roosevelt's most ardent and loyal admirers"[2] and acted as Roosevelt's best man in Roosevelt's wedding to Edith Carrow. Spring-Rice memorably remarked about Roosevelt: "You must remember that the president is about six".
However he seems to have been unable to turn these earlier close links to the administration to a relationship of use to his government.[citation needed] Spring-Rice had earned the enmity of his government after becoming paranoid - seeing German spies everywhere - and also because of his immense dislike of any British visitors to Washington that were not under the control of his embassy.[citation needed] In his will he left money to Balliol College to found the Spring Rice Scholarship Trust which funds the learning of languages by students who intend to join the diplomatic service.
Health
Spring-Rice suffered from Graves' disease
Writings
He wrote the present text for the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country, which can now be found in many British Hymn books, revising a poem of his own, about the same time. He was a close friend of Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol, a British journalist and later diplomat, with whom he corresponded for many years.
Early life
Spring-Rice was the son of Hon. Thomas William Spring Rice, second son of the prominent Whig politician and former Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Spring-Rice went on to become the British Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran (1900), Commissioner of Public Debt in Cairo (1901) and Chargé d'Affaires in St. Petersburg (1903). He later served in Persia (1906) and Sweden (1908) before his appointment as ambassador to the United States in 1912. He was abruptly recalled in a one-line telegram, and died in Ottawa shortly thereafter, where he is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
According to , in his The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, "Spring-Rice was a born diplomat [who] invariably picked out and cultivated the most important person in any place".[1] He was well respected in London's diplomatic circles. Further, "he was one of [President] Theodore Roosevelt's most ardent and loyal admirers"[2] and acted as Roosevelt's best man in Roosevelt's wedding to Edith Carrow. Spring-Rice memorably remarked about Roosevelt: "You must remember that the president is about six".
However he seems to have been unable to turn these earlier close links to the administration to a relationship of use to his government.[citation needed] Spring-Rice had earned the enmity of his government after becoming paranoid - seeing German spies everywhere - and also because of his immense dislike of any British visitors to Washington that were not under the control of his embassy.[citation needed] In his will he left money to Balliol College to found the Spring Rice Scholarship Trust which funds the learning of languages by students who intend to join the diplomatic service.
Health
Spring-Rice suffered from Graves' disease
Writings
He wrote the present text for the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country, which can now be found in many British Hymn books, revising a poem of his own, about the same time. He was a close friend of Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol, a British journalist and later diplomat, with whom he corresponded for many years.