Cecil Spring Rice

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Cecil Spring Rice was a British diplomat best known for serving as ambassador to the United States during World War I and for writing the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country."

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Cecil Spring Rice canonical 1
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British diplomat
ambassador
human
appliesTo tenure as British Ambassador to the United States
birthCountry United Kingdom
birthDate 1859-02-27
birthPlace London, England
surface form: London
burialPlace Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Canada
surface form: Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa
causeOfDeath heart disease
citizenship United Kingdom
deathCountry Canada
deathDate 1918-02-14
deathPlace Ottawa
decoratedWith Order of St Michael and St George
Order of the Bath
education Balliol College, Oxford
Eton College
employer Foreign and Commonwealth Office
surface form: British Foreign Office
endTime 1918
familyName Rice
surface form: Spring Rice
fullName Cecil Spring Rice self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice
givenName Cecil
hasSibling Stephen Spring Rice
honorificPrefix Sir
influenced Anglo-American relations during World War I
knownFor serving as British ambassador to the United States during World War I
writing the poem that became the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country"
languageSpoken English
marriageDate 1904
memberOf British diplomatic service
middleName Arthur
monarchDuringService George V
nationality British
occupation civil servant
diplomat
poet
participatedIn World War I (as diplomat)
positionHeld British Ambassador to Sweden
British Ambassador to the United States
diplomatic secretary in various British embassies
relative Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
spouse Florence Caroline Lascelles
startTime 1912
workedIn Stockholm
Washington, D.C.
wrote poem "Urbs Dei" / "The City of God"
poem later adapted as hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country"

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Cecil hasNotableBearer Cecil Spring Rice
Cecil Spring Rice fullName Cecil Spring Rice self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice