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Spring Rice, Baron Monteagle

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • MONTEAGLE in [Burkes Peerage]

  • Monteagle papers, P14 at [LA]
    • Rental of the Manor of Mount Trenchard, dated 25 Mar 1747.

  • Map of Mount Trenchard estate, 1770. Limerick Museum.

  • Monteagle papers (NLI). Collection List 122 in [NLI Ms] RR.

Rice apparently came to Mount Trenchard, Co.Limerick, in 1767.

Stephen Edward Rice,
of Mount Trenchard House, between Loghill and Foynes, Co.Limerick.
He mar 1785 to Katherine Spring [descendant of Edward III].
He died 1831.
They had issue:

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, born 1790.
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1835-1839.
He was cr Baron Monteagle 1839.
He died 1866.
He had issue:

Stephen Spring Rice,
born 1814, eldest son.
He became a friend at Cambridge of Arthur Helps.
Helps became private secretary to his father.
Stephen died 1865, just before his father.
He had issue:

1. Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon, born 1849.
   He succ 1866.
   He mar 1875 to Elizabeth Butcher.
   He was a Gaelic revival enthusiast.
   Elizabeth was friendly with Bessie O'Brien.
   She delivered a tribute to Thomas T. Madigan when he died in 1904.
   She died 1908.
   2nd Baron arranged for a defence for Willie Madigan at his trial in 1921.
   He died 1926.
   2nd Baron and Elizabeth had issue:
   1. Mary Spring Rice, born 1880.
      Irish nationalist.
      She was involved in the Howth gun-running 1914.
      See biography.

Cappa (Mount Trenchard) on p.106 of [Taylor and Skinner, 1777].

Mount Trenchard on 1887 to 1913 map.
See modern satellite view and street view of W entrance and E entrance.

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• Baron Monteagle

• Spring Rice in Landed Estates Database.
  • Mount Trenchard