Edward Royd Rice

Rice was born on 25 April 1790 in Dover, Kent. He was the third son of Henry Rice, Esq. of Brambling House, near Wingham, Kent, and Sarah Samson (a daughter of J. Samson, Esq.). His paternal grandfather was Walter Rice, Esq. of Llwyn-y-Brain Hall, Carmarthenshire.

In 1830, he was High Sheriff of Kent.{{London Gazette|issue=18652|pages=257–258|date=2 February 1830|nolink=y}}

From 1837 to 1857, Rice served as a Whig Member of Parliament for Dover.

In cricket, he was associated with Middlesex and was active from 1826 to 1834, being recorded in two first-class matches in which he totalled 22 runs with a highest score of 13.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37579/37579.html |publisher=CricketArchive |title=Edward Rice |accessdate=2 June 2013}}

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On 6 October 1818, Rice was married to Elizabeth Knight (1800–1884), the sixth (of eleven) child of Edward Austen Knight of Godmersham Park (who added Knight to his surname to inherit from his relative, Thomas Knight) and Elizabeth Bridges (herself the daughter of Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet). Through her father, she was niece of author Jane Austen.{{cite web |title=A Watercolour of Jane Austen |url=https://thericeportrait.com/a-watercolour-of-jane-austen |website=thericeportrait.com |publisher=The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen |access-date=24 October 2024}} Together, they lived at Dane Court in Tilmanstone, Kent,{{cite web |title=Dane Court, Tilmanstone |url=https://www.thedicamillo.com/house/dane-court-tilmanstone/?search_ref=4269a206404f123e6fc58c5c06ddc356 |website=www.thedicamillo.com |publisher=DiCamillo |access-date=24 October 2024}}{{cite web |title=DANE COURT |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247718 |website=historicengland.org.uk |publisher=Historic England |access-date=24 October 2024}} and were the parents of ten sons and five daughters:{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1886 |publisher=Harrison |page=1546 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJMWR99J89kC&pg=PA1546 |access-date=23 October 2024 |language=en}}

• Sir Edward Bridges Rice (1819–1902), an Admiral with the Royal Navy; he married Cecilia Caroline Harcourt, daughter of Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, in 1864.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituary |date=31 October 1902 |page=8 |issue=36913| }}
• Henry Rice (1821–1849), a Captain with the 72nd Highlanders.
• Frances Margaretta "Fanny" Rice (1820–1909),{{cite web |title=Fanny Margaretta (née Rice), Countess of Winchilsea (1820-1909), Third wife of 9th or 10th Earl of Winchilsea; daughter of Edward Royd Rice |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp121824/fanny-margaretta-nee-rice-countess-of-winchilsea |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=24 October 2024}} who married, as his third wife, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, in 1849.{{Cite book |last=Bateman |first=John |url=http://archive.org/details/greatlandownerso00bateuoft |title=The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book .. |date=1883 |publisher=London, Harrison |others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}
• John Morland Rice (1823–1897), the Rector of Bramber who married Caroline Penelope York, daughter of Edward York of Wighill Park, in 1861.{{cite web |title=John Morland Rice (1823-1897), College fellow and Chuch of England clergyman |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp92970/john-morland-rice |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=23 October 2024}}
• Marianne Sophia Rice (1826–1903), who married the Rev. Sir Emilius Bayley, 3rd Baronet, in 1855.
• George Augustus Rice (1827–1853), a Commander with the Royal Navy.
• Charles Augustus Rice (1829–1905), a Major with the Royal Engineers; he married his cousin, Adela Mary Margaretta Knight, third surviving daughter of Edward Knight of Chawton House, in 1875.
• Cecil Rice (1831–1917), a Lt.-Col. with the 72nd Highlanders; he married Anne Frances "Fanny" Napier, descendant of the 6th Lord Napier.{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1884 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=505 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vlo-AQAAIAAJ&q=lt-col+cecil+rice&pg=PA505 |access-date=10 July 2018 |language=en}} After her death in 1884, he married Lady Matilda Horatia Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour and sister to Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford.{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Margaret Ethel |last2=Macpherson |first2=Violet Mary |title=Marcia Alice Rice: M.A. Oxon, Head Mistress of S. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley, 1900-1921, Head Mistress of the School of S. Mary and S. Anne, 1921-1931 |date=1961 |publisher=Wilding |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRcPAQAAIAAJ&q=Walter+Francis+Rice,+napier |access-date=10 July 2018 |language=en}}
• Walter Brook Rice (1837–1892), a Major General with the British Army.{{cite book |title=Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal |date=1871 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=621 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621 |access-date=23 October 2024 |language=en}}
• Arthur Rice (1838–1861), a Lt. with the 72nd Highlanders.
• Ernest Rice (1840–1927), also an Admiral who achieved flag rank in the Royal Navy; he married Laura Marianne York, another daughter of Edward York of Wighill Park, in 1870. After her death, he married Fanny Julia Dawkins, daughter of Clinton George Augustus Dawkins, Consul-General to Vienna, in 1903.
• Lionel Knight Rice (1844–1929), who married Eleanor Murray, daughter of Robert Hay Murray, Esq., in 1878.

Rice died on 27 November 1878 in Eastry, Kent, and was buried at St. Andrew Churchyard in Tilmanstone.

Through his son Cecil, he was a grandfather of Walter Francis Rice, Lieutenant Governor of British Crown Colony of Burma.

Through his daughter Fanny, he was a grandfather of Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea, Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea, Lady Evelyn Georgiana Finch-Hatton (who married the 4th Viscount Templetown), and Harold Finch-Hatton.

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• [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edward-royd-rice-mp-76273 Portrait of Edward Royd Rice MP] by William Richard Waters at ArtUK
• [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F25265 Rice family of Dane Court, Tilmanstone] at the National Archives (United Kingdom)

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