Edward Rice (priest)

Edward Rice (19 November 1779 – 15 August 1862)[1] was Dean of Gloucester from 1825[2] until his death.

The second son of the Welsh politician George Rice[3] and his wife the Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor,[4] he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1800 he married Charlotte Lascelles, the illegitimate daughter of General Francis Lascelles and singer Ann Catley.[5] Their second son was Francis William Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor.[6] He was Precentor of York Minster from 1802, and Prebend of Driffield until his death;[7] and held the living at Great Rissington[8] from 1810 to 1856 when he passed it to his eldest son, Henry.

Notes
  1. ARS
  2. 'Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday , December 22, 1825; Issue6416
  3. Peter D. G. Thomas, ‘Rice, George (1724?–1779)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 4 April 2013
  4. "No. 12892". The London Gazette. 9 June 1787. p. 274.
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  6. thePeerage.com
  7. Death Of The Dean Of Glocester The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 20, 1862; pg. 9; Issue 24329
  8. Geograph


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