Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon
Commander Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon
( 1 October 1852 – 22 December 1937) was an Anglo- Irish peer.
Spring Rice was the son of Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice, son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, and Ellen Mary Frere.
He was educated at Harrow School, after which he joined the Royal Navy.
He would eventually rise to the rank of Lieutenant before retiring.
He inherited his nephew's title in 1934, but never spoke or voted in the House of Lords, dying three years later.
He married Elizabeth Ann FitzGerald, the daughter of Sir Peter FitzGerald, 19th Knight of Kerry, on 28 September 1882.
Following his first's wife death, he married her sister, Julia, on 11 September 1935.
He was succeeded by his second son, Charles, as his first son died as an infant.
Stephen de Segrave
Stephen de Segrave( or Stephen Sedgrave or Stephen Segrave)( c. 1171 – 9 November 1241) was a medieval Chief Justiciar of England.
Mary Spring Rice
Mary Ellen Spring Rice (14 September 1880 – 1 December 1924) was an Irish nationalist activist during the early 20th century.
Spring Rice was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family in London.
She was the daughter of Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon, and a great-granddaughter of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Spring Rice.
Her maternal grandfather was the bishop, Samuel Butcher.
She was brought up on the family's Mount Trenchard estate overlooking the River Shannon.
It was a progressive, liberal household and independence of thought was encouraged.
So too was the Gaelic culture and, at home, Spring Rice and her brothers were taught how to speak fluent Irish.
Before the First World War, Spring Rice hosted many Irish nationalist and Conradh na Gaeilge meetings at her home, and she became a close friend of Douglas Hyde and her cousin Nelly O'Brien.
During 1913 and 1914, Spring Rice was actively involved in gun-running, most notably the Howth gun-running.
This involved helping to ship weapons to be used in an Irish uprising from Germany into Ireland.
Together with Molly Childers, she raised £2,000 towards the purchase of 900 Mauser rifles from Germany, many of which were used in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Spring Rice sailed on the Asgard to collect the guns and helped to unload them in Ireland.
During the Irish War of Independence, she allowed her Mount Trenchard home to be used as a safe house by Irish Republican Army fighters and the family boat was used to carry men and arms over the Shannon Estuary.
Con Collins stayed with her regularly.
She helped train local women as nurses to tend to wounded nationalists and acted as an IRA message carrier between Limerick and Dublin.
Throughout this time, she maintained her aristocratic façade and society connections, inviting senior Liberal Party politicians to Mount Trenchard to pressure them to support Irish independence.
Lucy Knox
Lucy Knox (9 November 1845 – 10 May 1884), styled The Honourable from 1870 until her death, was an Anglo-Irish poet of the Victorian era.
Knox was born as Lucy Spring Rice in Hither Green, Lewisham, the second daughter of Stephen Spring Rice and Ellen Mary Frere, and a granddaughter of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon.
At the age of twenty she married Octavius Newry Knox, grandson of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, and her married name became Knox.
Her first published work was a sonnet which appeared in a 1870 edition of "Macmillan's Magazine".
Knox's first collection of poetry, "Sonnets and Other Poems" was published privately in London in 1870.
The volume contained thirty-three poems, largely concerned with social and political concerns, love and marriage.
In 1877 Knox contributed several poems to the "Irish Monthly" alongside her father and cousin, Aubrey Thomas de Vere.
Her second and final collection of poetry, "Four Pictures from a Life, and Other Poems", was published in 1884, containing forty-seven original poems, sixteen translations from German and two translations from Italian.
Among them was "Carlyle", a lament for her family friend Thomas Carlyle.
A review in "The Academy" expressed admiration for Knox's genuineness and merit.
Knox died at the age of 39 having had three daughters and one son with Octavius.
Their grandson was the British judge Sir John Leonard Knox.
Mount Spring-Rice
Mount Spring- Rice is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia.
It was named in 1918 by Arthur O. Wheeler, and was named after the British diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon
Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon( 28 January
1887 – 9 December 1946) was an Anglo- Irish peer.
Spring Rice was the son of Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon, by his first wife, Elizabeth Ann FitzGerald.
He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Spring Rice served as an officer in the Royal Army Service Corps during the First World War, leaving the army as a captain in 1919.
He inherited his barony following the death of his father in 1937, when he took his seat as a Conservative in the House of Lords.
He lived at Mount Trenchard House.
He married Emilie Frances de Kosenko, an American heiress, on 14 April 1925 and they had three children.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, Gerald.
Thomas Spring Rice
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Stephen Spring Rice
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Stephen Spring Rice (1814–1865)
Stephen Edmund Spring Rice( 31 August 1814 – 9 May 1865), styled
The Honourable from 1839 until his death, was an Anglo- Irish civil servant and philanthropist.
He served as the Secretary of the British Relief Association between 1847 and 1848.
Carl Christian Amussen
Carl Christian Amussen (May 20, 1825 – October 29, 1902), also referred to as Carl Christian Asmussen, and with Carl at times spelled Karl, was Utah's first jeweler.
Karl Amussen, the third son of Danish sea captain Karl Asmussen and his wife Petra Asmussen née Johansen, was born in Køge, Zealand just outside Copenhagen, Denmark on May 20, 1825.
Not wishing to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, Amussen apprenticed as a watchmaker, jeweler and dentist.
His skill in jewelry-making was so great that he spent some time as court jeweler to the Czar of Russia.
Additionally he was involved in that trade in Great Britain, Russia and Australia and circumnavigated the globe twice over the course of his lifetime.
In 1857 Amussen moved to Christchurch, New Zealand where he opened a jewelry store.
It was there in 1864 he learned of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from reading Parley P. Pratt's pamphlet "The Voice of Warning".
The stamp on the booklet noted that it had been published in Liverpool, England and so he traveled there to the headquarters of the church.
Amussen was baptized into the LDS Church by Elisha H. Groves and in 1865 moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Amussen was then called to serve a mission in New Zealand where he organized an LDS congregation in Kaipoi.
In 1868 Amussen returned to Salt Lake City where he met Brigham Young and, upon Young's advice, purchased land on Main Street where he built a jewelry store.
He brought supplies via covered wagon and the mirrors that once adorned his store were later used in the Salt Lake Temple..
The Amussen Building, designed by pioneer architect William Harrison Folsom, was the first fire-proof building in the Utah Territory.
It was constructed of sandstone with a slate roof, cement basement and pane glass windows.
The two-story store towered over the surrounding one-story adobe structures and remains standing to this day as a testament to its sound construction.
Amussen was also connected with the early American department store, Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Amussen served two missions for the LDS Church in Denmark and also later served a mission in Australia.
He was ordained a Seventy by Joseph Young.
After Amussen retired from the jewelry business he invested in real estate in Logan, Utah and owned business properties in the center of Logan.
He was a polygamist with three wives: Anna K. Nielsen, and sisters Martha McIsaac Smith and Barbara McIssac Smith.
Amussen had 18 children by his three wives.
His youngest child, Flora Amussen, born in 1901, married LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.
For the last several years of his life Amussen resided in Logan, where his son Carl S. Amussen was later a prominent car dealer in the 1910s.

Question: Who lived longer, Carl Christian Amussen or Stephen Spring Rice (1814–1865)?
Answer: Carl Christian Amussen