Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (5 July 1926 – 17 November 2013)[1] was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer, banker and Conservative peer.

[2] He was educated at Harrow School and, during the height of the U-Boat threat in 1940, at St Columba's College, Dublin.

[2] Spring Rice received his call-up papers to join the British Army in August 1944, commissioning into the Irish Guards.

Spring Rice's father died in 1946 and he inherited the title Baron Monteagle of Brandon, returning to Ireland for a year to manage the family estate.

[4] Spring Rice assumed his seat in the House of Lords on 8 July 1947,[5] taking his place on the Conservative benches.