Baron Monteagle of Brandon, in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1839 for the Whig politician Thomas Spring Rice

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.-Background:...

. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer

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 between 1835 and 1839. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron, his eldest son the Hon. Stephen Edmund Spring Rice having predeceased him. Lord Monteagle was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1885. On his death the title passed to his son, the third Baron. He held minor diplomatic office. He was succeeded by his uncle, the fourth Baron. He was the younger son of the aforementioned the Hon. Stephen Edmund Spring Rice, eldest son of the first Baron. The title is currently held by the fourth Baron's grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1946.

The diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice

Cecil Spring-Rice

Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice GCMG GCVO , was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.-Early life:...

, British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, was the son of Hon. Thomas William Spring Rice, second son of the first Baron Monteagle of Brandon.

Barons Monteagle of Brandon (1839)

• Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.-Background:...
  
   (1790–1866)
• Thomas Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Thomas Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon KP was an Irish peer. He became Baron Monteagle of Brandon in 1866 on the death of his grandfather Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 9 February 1885....
  
   (1849–1926)
• Thomas Aubrey Rice, 3rd Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1883–1934)
• Francis Spring Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1852–1937)
• Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1887–1946)
• Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon became baron Baron Monteagle of Brandon in 1946 on the death of his father, Charles Spring Rice, the 5th Baron. Spring Rice was educated at Harrow. He was a captain in the Irish Guards and part of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the...
  
   (b. 1926)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's only son, the Hon. Charles James Spring Rice (b. 1953)