Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Who was Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon?

Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Spring Rice was the son of Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon and an American, Emilie de Kosenko. He was educated at Harrow. Spring Rice became Baron Monteagle of Brandon in 1946 upon the death of his father. He was commissioned into the Irish Guards, serving in Palestine and retiring with the rank of captain in 1955. He was part of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Queen's bodyguard, between 1978 and 1996. He worked at the London Stock Exchange between 1958 and 1976 and at Lloyds TSB from 1978 to 1998. He married Anne Brownlow, the only daughter of Colonel Guy Brownlow, in 1949, with whom he had four children:

Hon. Elinor Spring Rice

Hon. Angela Spring Rice

Charles Spring Rice, 7th Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Hon. Fiona Spring Rice

Spring Rice was one of the hereditary peers who lost his right to sit in the British Parliament as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. In his later life Lord Monteagle lived in Amesbury, Wiltshire, where he died and is buried.