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SIR CECIL SPRING RICE
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Early life and family
Spring Rice was born into an aristocratic and well-connected family. He was the son of the diplomat, Hon. Charles William Thomas Spring Rice, second son of the prominent Whig politician and former cabinet minister
He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, under the direction of Benjamin Jowett.[1] Whilst at university, he rowed for his college and achieved a double first.
he took an examination for the Foreign Office and was accepted. Although brought up as an Englishman, Spring Rice maintained a close affinity with Ireland, and he later wrote a poem about his duel Rice (Irish) and Spring (English) roots.[1]
SIR CECIL SPRING RICE
I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY
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Spring Rice began his career as a clerk in the Foreign Office in 1882. In 1886, he was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, the Liberal politician Lord Rosebury.[3] Spring Rice was known to be a supporter of the Liberal Party and was sympathetic to the Irish Home Rule movement, so he was relieved of his post when the Conservatives came to power later that year. Spring Rice subsequently made the unusual move to the diplomatic service, where he remained for the rest of his life
In November 1901 he had been promoted to the rank of Secretary of Embassy.[4] He later served in Persia (1906) and Sweden (1908) before his appointment as ambassadorto the United States in 1912. Within two years of Spring Rice's posting to Washington, the First World War had broken out in Europe and his principle concern became working towards ending American neutrality. This was achieved with the USA's entry into the conflict in 1917. In February 1918 he was abruptly recalled to London in a one-line telegram, and died in Ottawa shortly thereafter, where he is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
Writing : spring Rice was a poet throughout his adult life.[1] In 1918 he rewrote the words of his most notable poem, Urbs Dei (The City of God) or The Two Fatherlands to become the text for the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country. This hymn was first performed in 1925, after Spring Rice's death, and has since become a widely recognised British anthem.
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