Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.
Portrait by George Richmond
A satirical depiction of Spring Rice (left) and Daniel O'Connell (right) as David and Goliath. Spring Rice led the parliamentary opposition to O'Connell's 1834 attempt to repeal the Acts of Union
Spring Rice as the MP for Limerick in an 1827 lithograph
The Spring Rice monument in Limerick, Ireland.
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The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the f
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
…Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, (8 February 1790 – 7 February 1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839. Spring Rice was born into a notable Anglo-Irish family, which owned large estates in Munster. He was one of the three children of…
John Healey Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024
Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860
Chancellor of the Exchequer's robe now at Hughenden Manor. (Reputedly made for Pitt the Younger, it was handed down to each of his successors but kept by Disraeli, forcing Gladstone to purchase a replacement).
Bishop Walter Stapledon Exeter Cathedral