Editing Cecil Spring Rice (section)

==Honours and legacy==
[[File:Cecil Spring Rice memorial plaque, Aira Force.jpg|300px|thumb|The memorial plaque to Sir Cecil Spring Rice on the lower bridge at [[Aira Force]], Cumbria.]]
Spring Rice was appointed a Knight Commander Cross of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] on 29 June 1906<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27926 |page=4461 |date=26 June 1906}}</ref><ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27935/page/5131/data.pdf</ref> and a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Victorian Order]] on 17 November 1908.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28199 |page=8698 |date=24 November 1908}}</ref> In 1906 he was made a Grand Cordon of [[Order of the Medjidie]]. In 1912 he was made a Commander (1st Class) of the [[Order of the Polar Star]] and he was made a member of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Imperial Privy Council]] on 7 March 1913.<ref name="gazette7march1913">{{London Gazette |issue=28697 |date=7 March 1913 |page=1749 }}</ref> Spring Rice was going to be offered a [[peerage]] upon his return to the United Kingdom, but died before the honour could be proposed.

In his will he left money to Balliol College to found the Cecil Spring Rice Memorial Fund which funds the learning of languages by students who intend to join the diplomatic service. Before his death, Spring Rice gave substantial funds for repairs to be carried out on [[St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham]], the ancestral church of the [[Spring family]].<ref>Philip J. Turner, 'Romance of a Wool Merchant' (Homecraft Publications Limited, Canada, 1936)</ref>

===Commemorations===
Shortly after his death, Spring Rice's family, friends and colleagues erected a bridge to his memory over the waterfall at [[Aira Force]], near his childhood home on Ullswater. [[All Saints Church, Watermillock]], contains a stone memorial tablet to Spring Rice.

In July 2013 a memorial was unveiled by Cecil Spring Rice's granddaughter, Caroline Kenny, at Spring Rice's graveside in Ottawa. The grave was cleaned up and a memorial plaque and ceremony was organised by the then British Consul, Ashley Prime, working in Toronto with support from the Freeman of the City of London (North America).<ref name="Simon"/> [[Mount Spring-Rice]] in [[British Columbia]] was named after Spring Rice in 1918 by surveyor Arthur Wheeler.