Talk:Cecil Spring Rice

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Untitled[edit]

There is a conflict between this entry and that of Spring -Rice's hymn "I vow to thee my country. This entry says he died 14 February 1918 the other entry says he wrote the hymn after the 1st World War which ended 11th November 1918?????

I am right now looking at a letter that Cecil Spring Rice wrote to the Duke of Connaught in 1914, and he seems to have spelled his name without a hyphen. Should the title of this article be changed? 142.78.200.17 (talk) 18:19, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hyphenated surname[edit]

The Spring Rice family surname is not, and never has been, hyphenated. I appreciate that some current (National Portrait Gallery) and contemporary (some London Gazette) sources do not show this. However, Spring Rice's own letters and writings show that he never spelt his own name with a hyphen, and this is also recorded in Stephen Gwynn's comprehensive 1929 collection of his work (see link here). The memorial plaques to Spring Rice at Aira Force and Watermillock church, erected by members of his family shortly after his death, do not include a hyphen (see picture 1 and picture 2). There are also many London Gazette entries which show the name unhyphenated (see example). Any recording of his surname with a hyphen is erroneous. WatermillockCommon (talk) 15:57, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]