Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Gerald Spring Rice, 6th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (5 July 1926 – 17 November 2013) was an Anglo-Irish peer and British Army officer.

Spring Rice was the son of Charles Spring Rice, 5th Baron Monteagle of Brandon and an American, Emilie de Kosenko. He was brought up in the family house, Glanleam on Valentia Island, County Kerry, also spending time on the Mount Trenchard House estate. He was educated at Harrow School and, during the height of the U-Boat threat in 1940, at St Columba's College, Dublin.

Spring Rice received his call-up papers to join the British Army in August 1944, commissioning into the Irish Guards. He experienced medical problems and was hospitalised for six months, missing the deployment of his battalion to the front. He attended the Mons Officer Cadet School and was later deployed to Northern Ireland, Hamburg and Palestine. Spring Rice's father died in 1946 and he inherited the title Baron Monteagle of Brandon, returning to Ireland for a year to manage the family estate.

Spring Rice retired from the army with the rank of captain in July 1955 and worked for Panmure Gordon & Co.. He subsequently worked at the London Stock Exchange between 1958 and 1976 and at Lloyds TSB from 1978 to 1998. He was part of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Queen's bodyguard, between 1978 and 1996. He married Anne Brownlow, the only daughter of Colonel Guy Brownlow, in 1949, with whom he had four children:
 * Hon. Elinor Spring Rice (born 1950)
 * Hon. Angela Spring Rice (born 1950)
 * Charles Spring Rice, 7th Baron Monteagle of Brandon (born 1953)
 * Hon. Fiona Spring Rice (born 1957)

Spring Rice was one of the hereditary peers who lost his right to sit in the British Parliament as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. He made his maiden speech in the Lords in 1991. In his later life Lord Monteagle lived in Amesbury, Wiltshire, where he died and is buried.