Edward Rice

Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice, (30 October 1819 – 30 October 1902) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career The son of Edward Royd Rice MP and Elizabeth Austen Knight (niece of Jane Austen). He was the brother of Admiral Sir Ernest Rice, Edward Rice joined the Royal Navy in 1832. He became mate in 1839, and was on board which took part in operations on the Yangtze River in 1842 during the First Opium War. After promotion to lieutenant in 1844 and commander in 1850, he then commanded a flotilla of boats on the Irrawaddy River in 1852 during the Second Anglo-Burmese War. Rice had charge of the seamen and naval guns on shore at the capture of Prome, for which he received the official thanks of the Governor-General in Council. In 1854, when commander of , he attacked the Riff pirates on shore near Cape Tres Forcas, and recaptured an English brig.

Promoted to captain in 1855, he commanded at Sevastopol during the closing stages of the Crimean War. and in retirement was Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.

Family Rice married in 1864 Cecilia Caroline Harcourt, daughter of Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park; they had one son, Henry Edward Harcourt Rice (1864-1944), who married Hon. Helen Sarah Godley, daughter of Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken.

His only son had issues including Edward Denis Rice (1899-1973), who married and later dirvoced Grace Lucille Marcella Rice (Duggan), daughter of Grace, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, had 3 children with her (one of them was Caroline Helen Rice, wife of Other Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth).