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The Right Honourable
Edward Royd Rice
JP DL
The Right Honourable Edward Royd Rice JP DL
Member of Parliament for Dover
	In office; 25 July 1837 – 28 March 1857 Serving with Sir John Reid, Bt, Sir George Clerk, Bt, Viscount Chelsea
Preceded by	John Minet Fector; Sir John Reid, Bt
Succeeded by	Ralph Bernal Osborne; Sir William Russell, Bt
High Sheriff of Kent
	In office; 1830–1830
Preceded by	Thomas Rider
Succeeded by	Baden Powell
Personal details
Born	Edward Royd Rice; 25 April 1790; Dover, Kent
Died	27 November 1878 (aged 88); Eastry, Kent
Political party	Whig
Spouse	Elizabeth Knight; (m. 1818; died 1878)
Relations	Walter Francis Rice (grandson); The 12th Earl of Winchilsea (grandson); The 13th Earl of Winchilsea (grandson); Harold Finch-Hatton (grandson)
Children	15, including Sir Edward, Ernest
Parent(s)	Henry Rice; Sarah Samson
Residence	Dane Court
Cricket information
Domestic team information
1826	Middlesex
1834	All-England
	Source: CricketArchive, 2 June 2013

Edward Royd Rice JP DL (25 April 1790 – 27 November 1878) was an English politician and first-class cricketer. He was Member of Parliament for Dover from 1847 to 1857.

Early life

Rice was born on 25 April 1790 in Dover, Kent. He was the third son of Henry Rice, Esq. of Brambling House, near Wingham, Kent, and Sarah Samson (a daughter of J. Samson, Esq.). His paternal grandfather was Walter Rice, Esq. of Llwyn-y-Brain Hall, Carmarthenshire.^[1]

Career

In 1830, he was High Sheriff of Kent.^[2]

From 1837 to 1857, Rice served as a Whig Member of Parliament for Dover.^[1]

Cricket career

In cricket, he was associated with Middlesex and was active from 1826 to 1834, being recorded in two first-class matches in which he totalled 22 runs with a highest score of 13.^[3]

Personal life

On 6 October 1818, Rice was married to Elizabeth Knight (1800–1884), the sixth (of eleven) child of Edward Austen Knight of Godmersham Park (who added Knight to his surname to inherit from his relative, Thomas Knight) and Elizabeth Bridges (herself the daughter of Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet). Through her father, she was niece of author Jane Austen.^[4] Together, they lived at Dane Court in Tilmanstone, Kent,^[5]^[6] and were the parents of ten sons and five daughters:^[1]

Sir Edward Bridges Rice (1819–1902), an Admiral with the Royal Navy; he married Cecilia Caroline Harcourt, daughter of Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, in 1864.^[7]
Henry Rice (1821–1849), a Captain with the 72nd Highlanders.^[1]
Frances Margaretta "Fanny" Rice (1820–1909),^[8] who married, as his third wife, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in 1849.^[9]
John Morland Rice (1823–1897), the Rector of Bramber who married Caroline Penelope York, daughter of Edward York of Wighill Park, in 1861.^[10]^[1]
Marianne Sophia Rice (1826–1903), who married the Rev. Sir Emilius Bayley, 3rd Baronet, in 1855.^[1]
George Augustus Rice (1827–1853), a Commander with the Royal Navy.^[1]
Charles Augustus Rice (1829–1905), a Major with the Royal Engineers; he married his cousin, Adela Mary Margaretta Knight, third surviving daughter of Edward Knight of Chawton House, in 1875.^[1]
Cecil Rice (1831–1917), a Lt.-Col. with the 72nd Highlanders; he married Anne Frances "Fanny" Napier, descendant of the 6th Lord Napier.^[11] After her death in 1884, he married Lady Matilda Horatia Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour and sister to Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford.^[12]
Walter Brook Rice (1837–1892), a Major General with the British Army.^[13]
Arthur Rice (1838–1861), a Lt. with the 72nd Highlanders.^[1]
Ernest Rice (1840–1927), also an Admiral who achieved flag rank in the Royal Navy; he married Laura Marianne York, another daughter of Edward York of Wighill Park, in 1870. After her death, he married Fanny Julia Dawkins, daughter of Clinton George Augustus Dawkins, Consul-General to Vienna, in 1903.
Lionel Knight Rice (1844–1929), who married Eleanor Murray, daughter of Robert Hay Murray, Esq., in 1878.^[1]

Rice died on 27 November 1878 in Eastry, Kent, and was buried at St. Andrew Churchyard in Tilmanstone.

Descendants

Through his son Cecil, he was a grandfather of Walter Francis Rice, Lieutenant Governor of British Crown Colony of Burma.^[11]

Through his daughter Fanny, he was a grandfather of Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea, Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea, Lady Evelyn Georgiana Finch-Hatton (who married the 4th Viscount Templetown), and Harold Finch-Hatton.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1546. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
^ "No. 18652". The London Gazette. 2 February 1830. pp. 257–258.
^ "Edward Rice". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
^ "A Watercolour of Jane Austen". thericeportrait.com. The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
^ "Dane Court, Tilmanstone". www.thedicamillo.com. DiCamillo. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
^ "DANE COURT". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
^ "Obituary". The Times. No. 36913. London. 31 October 1902. p. 8.
^ "Fanny Margaretta (née Rice), Countess of Winchilsea (1820-1909), Third wife of 9th or 10th Earl of Winchilsea; daughter of Edward Royd Rice". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
^ Bateman, John (1883). The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book . Robarts - University of Toronto. London, Harrison.
^ "John Morland Rice (1823-1897), College fellow and Chuch of England clergyman". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1884. p. 505. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ Hall, Margaret Ethel; Macpherson, Violet Mary (1961). Marcia Alice Rice: M.A. Oxon, Head Mistress of S. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley, 1900-1921, Head Mistress of the School of S. Mary and S. Anne, 1921-1931. Wilding. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal. H. Colburn. 1871. p. 621. Retrieved 23 October 2024.

External links

Portrait of Edward Royd Rice MP by William Richard Waters at ArtUK
Rice family of Dane Court, Tilmanstone at the National Archives (United Kingdom)

Honorary titles
Preceded by Thomas Rider	High Sheriff of Kent 1830–1830	Succeeded by Baden Powell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Minet Fector Sir John Reid, Bt	Member of Parliament for Dover 1837–1857 With: Sir John Reid, Bt (1837–1847) Sir George Clerk, Bt (1847–1852) Viscount Chelsea (1852–1857)	Succeeded by Ralph Bernal Osborne Sir William Russell, Bt