I Vow to Thee, My Country
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"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when Gustav Holst set words written earlier by Cecil Spring Rice. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later
Sir Cecil Spring Rice
"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is popularly sung at Remembrance Day services
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
I Vow to Thee, My Country
…I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when Gustav Holst set words written earlier by Cecil Spring Rice. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named "Thaxted", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of his own 1917 suite The Planets. The…
Sir Cecil Spring Rice in court dress.
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.