27 February 1859 St George Hanover Square, London, England[1]
Died
14 February 1918(1918-02-14) (aged 58) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Spouse
Florence Caroline Lascelles
(m. 1904)
Children
2
Relatives
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon (grandfather)
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation
Diplomat
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, GCMG, GCVO, PC (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918) was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
He was also a close friend of US President Theodore Roosevelt, and served as best man at his second wedding.[2]
He is best known as the writer of the lyrics of the patriotic hymn, "I Vow to Thee, My Country".
^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
^Roosevelt's Contemporaries: Cecil Spring Rice Archived 8 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Theodore Roosevelt Center (7 April 2014). Retrieved 28 July 2016.
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