See also
| Husband: | Edward Rice (1795-1853) | |
| Wife: | Sophia Blount (1798-1867) | |
| Children: | John Rice (1838-1914) | |
| Marriage | 4 Aug 1836 | St Botolph Aldersgate, London |
| Name: | Edward Rice | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 24 May 1795 | Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire |
| Occupation | 1828 (age 32-33) | Vicar of Horley, Surrey |
| Occupation | 1836 (age 40-41) | Upper Grammar Master, Christ's Hospital, Newgate |
| Census | 1841 (age 45-46) | Doctor in Divinity, Head Master of Christ's Hosiptal, Christchurch Newgate Street, London |
| Census | 1851 (age 55-56) | D.D., Clergyman, Schoolmaster & Vicar of Horley, Head Classical Master, Christs Church, Newgate Street, London |
| Death fact | 1853 (age 57-58) | 1853 Mar Q, City of London, 1c/86 |
| Death | 20 Jan 1853 (age 57) | City of London |
| Name: | Sophia Blount | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Samuel Blount ( - ) | |
| Mother: | Elizabeth London ( - ) | |
| Birth | 1798 | Uxbridge, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 13 Apr 1798 (age 0) | St Margaret, Uxbridge, Middlesex |
| Will | 25 Nov 1826 (age 27-28) | Executrix to husband's will |
| Census | 1841 (age 42-43) | Wife in household |
| Census | 1851 (age 52-53) | Wife in household |
| Death fact | 1867 (age 68-69) | 1867 Mar Q, Kensington, 1a/92 (aged 68) |
| Death | 8 Mar 1867 (age 68-69) | Kensington, Middlesex |
| Name: | John Rice | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Elizabeth Thornton Down (1840-1936) | |
| Birth | 1838 | Christs Hospital, Newgate Street, London |
| Birth fact | 1838 (age 0) | GRO Reference: 1838 M Quarter in CITY OF LONDON UNION Volume 02 Page 164 |
| Census | 1841 (age 2-3) | Living with parents |
| Census | 1851 (age 12-13) | Living with parents |
| Residence | 22 May 1867 (age 28-29) | 14 Kensington Crescent, Middlesex (Executor to mother's will) |
| Census | 1871 (age 32-33) | Clerk in insurance office, 14 Kensington Crescent, Kensington, Middlesex (unmarried) |
| Census | 1881 (age 42-43) | Clerk in insurance office, 14 Kensington Crescent, Kensington, Middlesex |
| Census | 1891 (age 52-53) | Inaurance clerk, 20 John Street, Holborn |
| Census | 1901 (age 62-63) | Retired insurance accountant, Ryton Lodge, Wickham Hill, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex |
| Census | 1911 (age 72-73) | Retired insurance clerk, 34 Medina Villas, Hove, Sussex |
| Death fact | 1914 (age 75-76) | GRO Reference: 1914 J Quarter in STEYNING Volume 02B Page 311 (aged 76) |
| Death | 4 Apr 1914 (age 75-76) | 34 Medina Villas, Hove, Sussex |
RICE, EDWARD. Adm. sizar (age 17) at Trinity, Jan. 23, 1813. S. of Bernard [doubtless Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1766]. B. [May 24, 1795] at Stratford-on-Avon. School, Christ's Hospital. Matric. Michs. 1813; Scholar, 1816; B.A. 1817; M.A. 1820; D.D. 1839. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 20, 1818; priest, Dec. 19, 1819; C. of St Giles, Cripplegate, 1820. Assistant Chaplain at the Magdalen Hospital, 1821. V. of Horley, Surrey, 1828-53. Evening Lecturer of St Stephen's, Coleman Street, 1829. Assistant Master at Christ's Hospital, 1818-36; Head Master, 1836-53. 'A very great Headmaster who set the highest standard for his scholars.' Committed suicide, Jan. 20, 1853. (Christ's Hospital Exhibitioners; Boase, in. 132; Clergy List.)
J.A.Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 2, Vol. 5, page 285.
Edward Rice, D.D., of Trinity College Cambridge. Instituted as Vicar of Horley 8 Aug 1828. ... The living of Horley is the property of the governors of Christ's Hospital. In distributing their patronage, the governors generally present this benefice to one of the masters of that institution, in requital of services, and as a means of ultimate retirement. Thus the present incumbent, Rev Dr. Rice, who is now headmaster of Christ's Hospital (and likewise preacher to the Philanthropic Society, St George's Fields), was inducted in 1828 when only third master; he had been then ten years in the service of the Hospital. ... During the incumbency of Dr. Rice (who, having other resources besides the living of Horley, has been enabled to effect many things here which could not otherwise have been done), there have been established National schools for boys and girls ... a Clothing club for the benefit of the poor, and also a Medical club for the same purpose. ... The approach to the vicarage house was always very bad at all seasons, and in the winter months it was nearly or altogether impassible. But the Rev. Dr. Rice, by making a carriage drive in the garden, and repairing the lane from the garden gate to the turnpike road, has remedied that evil, and the vicarage been thus rendered accessible, at an expense of £200.
Source: E.W. Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, Vol 4, pp.277-278.
Entry in burial register of St Bartholomew, Horley, Surrey: Elizabeth Rice (1831, aged 35), Edward Heming Rice (1844, aged 22), Edward Rice DD Vicar of Horley 1827-1853 (1853, aged 57); The bodies of those mentioned were removed from Christs Hospital E.C. on 28 Jan 1903 and re-interred in Horley Churchyard 29 Jan 1903.
RICE Sophia, 22 May 1867. The Will of Sophia Rice late of Kensington in the County of Middlesex Widow deceased who died 8 March 1867 at Kensington aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oaths of Edmund Tennant of Hanley in the County of Stafford Esquire and John Rice of 14 Kensington Crescent in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Gentleman the Son the Executors. Effects under £3,000.