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Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice

Diplomat

Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, British diplomat. Decorated Order of 1st Class, Medjidie, 1st Class, Polar Star, Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order, Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George.

Background

Spring-Rice, Cecil Arthur was born on February 27, 1859 in London, England. Son of Honorary Charles and Elizabeth (Marshall) Spring-Rice.

Education

Eton; Balliol College Oxford. Exhibitioner; 1st class moderations and final classical school. Clerk in War Office, and Foreign Office.

Career

Rt. Honorary Sir Frank Lascelles, 1904. Clerk in War Office and Foreign Office. Secretary in diplomatic service at Brussels, Washington, Tokio, Berlin and Constantinople.

Charge d’affaires, Teheran, 1900. British commissioner of Public Debt, Cairo, 1901. Secretary of embassy, St. Petersburg, 1903-1906.

Minister and consul-general to Persia, 1906-1908. Envoy Extraordinary anu Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden, 1908-1913. Ambassador E. & P. from Great Britain to the United States, May 6, since 1913.

Membership

Clubs: Travellers', St. James’s, Savile.

  • Clubs: Travellers', St. James’s, Savile.

Connections

Spouse 1904, Florence,daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles.

Father:
Honorary Charles Spring-Rice

Mother:
Elizabeth (Marshall) Spring-Rice

Spouse:
Florence