Walter Francis Rice CSI (12 April 1871 – 21 March 1941) was a Scottish civil servant and British colonial administrator who served as interim Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from September 1917 to February 1918.
[1] Rice was born in Ceres, Fife, one of nine surviving children of Col. Cecil Rice of the Seaforth Highlanders, and his first wife, Frances Anne "Fanny" Napier (1848–1884), descendant of the 6th Lord Napier.
[3] He was educated at Morrison's Academy in Crieff, Perth and Kinross, before going to Balliol College, Oxford.
He served as Lieutenant- Governor for four months while awaiting the arrival of Sir Reginald Craddock.
[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in the 1910 Birthday Honours.