Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Baron Monteagle of Brandon, in the County of Kerry,[1] is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Before his final exile, James II had intended the title to be conferred upon one of his supporters, Stephen Rice in the Jacobite peerage.

The second Lord Monteagle was a unionist politician and was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1885.

[2] The diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, was the son of Hon.

Charles William Thomas Spring Rice, second son of the first Baron Monteagle of Brandon.