Edward Rice (priest)

The Hon and Very Rev Edward Rice, DD,^[1] MA(19 November 1779 – 15 August 1862)^[2] was Dean of Gloucester from 1825^[3] until his death.

The second son of the Welsh politician George Rice^[4] and his wife the Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor,^[5] he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1800 he married Charlotte Lascelles, the illegitimate daughter of General Francis Lascelles and singer Ann Catley.^[6] Their second son was Francis William Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor.^[7] He was Precentor of York Minster from 1802, and Prebend of Driffield until his death;^[8] and held the living at Great Rissington^[9] from 1810 to 1856 when he passed it to his eldest son, Henry.

Notes

1. Deaths The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 19, 1862; pg. 1; Issue 24328
2. ARS
3. 'Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday , December 22, 1825; Issue6416
4. 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
5. The London Gazette: no. 12892. p. 274. 9 June 1787.
6. rebus
7. thePeerage.com
8. Death Of The Dean Of Glocester The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 20, 1862; pg. 9; Issue 24329
9. Geograph