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{{short description|British Ambassador to United States}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name        = Sir Cecil Spring Rice
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO}}
|image       = File:Cecil Spring-Rice.png
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|ambassador_from =British
|country         = the United States
|term_start  =  1912
|term_end    =  1918
|monarch     = [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]
|primeminister = [[H. H. Asquith]] <br /> [[David Lloyd George]]
|predecessor =  [[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]]
|successor   =  [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|The Earl of Reading]]
|ambassador_from1 = British
|country1     =  Sweden
|term_start1  =  1908
|term_end1    =  1912
|predecessor1 =  [[Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell|Sir Rennell Rodd]]
|successor1   =  [[Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith|Esme Howard]]
|ambassador_from2 = British
|country2     =  Persia
|term_start2  =  1906
|term_end2    =  1908
|predecessor2 =  [[Arthur Henry Hardinge|Sir Arthur Hardinge]]
|successor2   =  [[George Head Barclay|Sir George Barclay]]
|birth_name   = Cecil Arthur Spring Rice
|birth_date   = 27 February 1859
|birth_place  = [[St George Hanover Square]], [[London]], England<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=6FaCJtvBTyy2GjKNokCFvw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=26 January 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref>
|death_date   = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1918|2|14|1859|2|27}}
|death_place  = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada
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|spouse       = {{marriage|Florence Caroline Lascelles|1904}}
|relatives = [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st&nbsp;Baron Monteagle of Brandon]] (grandfather)
|children     = 2
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|alma_mater   = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
|occupation   = Diplomat
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'''Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCMG|GCVO}} (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918) was a British [[diplomat]] who served as [[British Ambassador to the United States]] from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end [[United States in World War I|American neutrality]] during the [[First World War]].

He was also a close friend of [[US President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], and served as best man at his second wedding.<ref name="theodorerooseveltcenter.org">[http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/2014/April/07-Cecil-Spring-Rice.aspx Roosevelt's Contemporaries: Cecil Spring Rice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808082652/http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/2014/April/07-Cecil-Spring-Rice.aspx |date=8 August 2016 }}, Theodore Roosevelt Center (7 April 2014). Retrieved 28 July 2016.</ref>

He is best known as the writer of the lyrics of the patriotic hymn "[[I&nbsp;Vow to Thee, My Country]]".