Edward Rice (priest)

Edward Rice (19 November 1779 – 15 August 1862)^[1] was Dean of Gloucester from 1825^[2] until his death.

The second son of the Welsh politician George Rice^[3] and his wife the Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor,^[4] he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1800 he married Charlotte Lascelles, the illegitimate daughter of General Francis Lascelles and singer Ann Catley.^[5] Their second son was Francis William Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor. He was Precentor of York Minster from 1802, and Prebend of Driffield until his death;^[6] and held the living at Great Rissington^[7] from 1810 to 1856 when he passed it to his eldest son, Henry.