Stephen Edward Spring Rice CB (28 March 1856 – 6 September 1902) was a British civil servant and academic.
Charles William Thomas Spring Rice, a civil servant in the Foreign Office, and Elizabeth Margaret Marshall.
He was the grandson of the Whig politician, Lord Monteagle of Brandon and the brother of the diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
[2][3] Spring Rice became Private Secretary to Sir William Harcourt when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer for the first time in 1886.
[7] Spring Rice died of an illness at Abinger Hall in Dorking on 6 September 1902 at the age of 46[8] and was buried at All Saints Church, Watermillock.