Family and Education
b. c. 1560, 1st s. of Griffith Rice of Auckland, co. Dur. and later Newton, by Elinor, da. of Sir Thomas Jones of Abermarlais. m. Elizabeth, da. of (Sir) Edward Mansell of Margam, Glam., 4s. 7da. suc. fa. 1584. Kntd. 23 July 1603.Dwnn, Vis. Wales, i. 210-11; DWB, 847-8. Shaw, Knights, ii. 117 incorrectly describes Rice as of Lincs., perhaps through a misreading at some stage of Llandefaison for Lincoln. Walter Rice of Newton was certainly kntd. before the 1604 Parliament and no other man of this name has been traced.
Offices Held
J.p. Carm. from c. 1583, sheriff 1585–6.
Main residence: Newton, Llandefaison, Carm.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
RICE, Walter (c.1560-?1611)
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Oxford 1644
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