Cecil Spring Rice
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Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
Spring Rice (second from left) signing the third US War Loan to Britain in 1917.
Spring Rice maintained a close friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt and served as best man at his second wedding.
The memorial plaque to Sir Cecil Spring Rice on the lower bridge at Aira Force, Cumbria.
Spring family
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The Spring family is a Suffolk gentry family that has been involved in the politics and economy of East Anglia since the 15th century, as well as holding large estates in Ireland from the 16th century.
Cockfield Hall, one of the seats of the Spring family for several generations
Church of St Peter and Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk, built with money from the Spring family
Funerary hatchment of Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (d.1737), of Packenham, quartering the arms of Jermyn (for his heiress mother), displayed in Lavenham Guildhall