Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (5 July 1926 – 17 November 2013) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer, banker and Conservative peer.

Early life Spring Rice was the son of Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon, and an American, Emilie de Kosenko. Born at the family seat of Mount Trenchard House, he was brought up in the family's house, Glanleam, on Valentia Island, County Kerry. He was educated at Harrow School and, during the height of the U-Boat threat in 1940, at St Columba's College, Dublin. He was part of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Queen's bodyguard, between 1978 and 1996.

Spring Rice assumed his seat in the House of Lords on 8 July 1947, taking his place on the Conservative benches. He made his maiden speech in 1992 and was an occasional contributor to debates in the chamber.

Family and personal life He married Anne Brownlow, the only daughter of Colonel Guy Brownlow, in 1949, with whom he had four children: Hon. Elinor Spring Rice (born 1950), married Myles Clare Elliott on 1 June 1974. Hon. Angela Spring Rice (1950–2015), married, firstly, Christopher Richard Seton Sheppard on 20 October 1973 (divorced 1982) and secondly Peter Alan Kirby Ottewill in 1991. Charles Spring Rice, 7th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (born 1953), married Mary Teresa Glover in 1987. Hon. Fiona Spring Rice (born 1957), married Andrew Louis Garber on 26 March 1982.

He sold the family's last remaining house in Ireland, in County Waterford, in 2011. Lord Monteagle moved to Amesbury, Wiltshire, where he died and is buried.