[2] Spring Rice was born in London, the daughter of Clara Thornbury and Samuel Garrett (solicitor and president of the Law Society).
[2] In 1924 Spring Rice became involved with the issues of poverty and access to birth control within the borough of North Kensington through the instigation of a friend Margaret Pyke (then Pollock).
[2] This work drew attention to the widespread poverty and poor health experienced by many women, much of it due to repeated pregnancies, miscarriages, and minor gynaecological problems.
During World War II, she ran a residential nursery for pre-school children evacuated from London at her home in the village of Iken on the Alde Estuary, close to Aldeburgh.
[1] Spring Rice spent the 1950s continuing to develop family planning services, particularly in Suffolk where she helped to establish several clinics, including one in Ipswich to which she became chairman.