Biography of Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor 1873-1956

Paternal Family Tree: Rice

Maternal Family Tree: Harriet Kinloch Lady Cunliffe 1830

On 4th February 1869 [his father] Arthur Rice 6th Baron Dynevor (age 33) and [his mother] Selina Lascelles (age 28) were married. They were third cousins.

On 17th August 1873 Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor was born to [his father] Arthur Rice 6th Baron Dynevor (age 37) and [his mother] Selina Lascelles (age 32).

On 13th August 1878 [his grandfather] Francis Rice Trevor 5th Baron Dynevor (age 74) died. His son [his father] Arthur (age 42) succeeded 6th Baron Dynevor of Dynevor in Camarthenshire.

On 16th December 1889 [his mother] Selina Lascelles (age 48) died at Llandeilo.

On 12th October 1898 Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 25) and Margaret Child-Villiers Baroness Dynevor (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Victor Albert George Child-Villiers 7th Earl Jersey (age 53) and Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Countess Jersey (age 48).

In 1899 Thomas Pakenham 5th Earl of Longford (age 34) and [his sister-in-law] Mary Julia Child-Villiers Countess Longford (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Longford. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Victor Albert George Child-Villiers 7th Earl Jersey (age 53) and [his mother-in-law] Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Countess Jersey (age 49). He the son of William Pakenham 4th Earl of Longford and Selina Rice Trevor Countess Longford (age 62).

On 21st September 1899 [his son] Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys 8th Baron Dynevor was born to Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 26) and [his wife] Margaret Child-Villiers Baroness Dynevor (age 24).

Between 1900 and 1912. William Edwards Miller (age 48). Portrait of Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 26).

William of Worcester's Chronicle of England

William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.

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On 27th August 1903 [his daughter] Imogen Alice Rice Viscountess Hampden was born to Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 30) and [his wife] Margaret Child-Villiers Baroness Dynevor (age 28). She married 1936 her third cousin David Brand 5th Viscount Hampden, son of Thomas Brand 3rd Viscount Hampden and Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, and had issue.

On 18th March 1907 [his son] Captain David Reginald Rhys was born to Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 33) and [his wife] Margaret Child-Villiers Baroness Dynevor (age 32). He married 23rd March 1933 Anne Wellesley, daughter of Arthur Charles Wellesley 5th Duke Wellington and Lillian Maud Glen Coats Duchess Wellington.

On 8th October 1908 [his brother-in-law] George Child-Villiers 8th Earl of Jersey (age 35) and Cynthia Almina Needham Countess Jersey were married. She the daughter of Francis Needham 3rd Earl of Kilmorey (age 66). He the son of [his father-in-law] Victor Albert George Child-Villiers 7th Earl Jersey (age 63) and [his mother-in-law] Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Countess Jersey (age 58).

On January 1910 Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 36) was elected MP Brighton. He was re-elcted in Decmber.

On 8th June 1911 [his father] Arthur Rice 6th Baron Dynevor (age 75) died at Dynevor Castle [Map]. His son Walter (age 37) succeeded 7th Baron Dynevor of Dynevor in Camarthenshire.

On 31st May 1915 [his father-in-law] Victor Albert George Child-Villiers 7th Earl Jersey (age 70) died at Osterley Park. His son [his brother-in-law] George (age 41) succeeded 8th Earl Jersey, 11th Viscount Grandison, 8th Viscount Villiers, 8th Baron Villiers. Cynthia Almina Needham Countess Jersey by marriage Countess Jersey.

On 31st December 1923 [his brother-in-law] George Child-Villiers 8th Earl of Jersey (age 50) died. His son George (age 13) succeeded 9th Earl Jersey, 12th Viscount Grandison, 9th Viscount Villiers, 9th Baron Villiers.

In 1933 [his sister-in-law] Mary Julia Child-Villiers Countess Longford (age 56) died.

On 23rd March 1933 [his son] Captain David Reginald Rhys (age 26) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Wellesley (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Arthur Charles Wellesley 5th Duke Wellington (age 56) and Lillian Maud Glen Coats Duchess Wellington (age 48).

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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In 1936 [his son-in-law] David Brand 5th Viscount Hampden (age 33) and [his daughter] Imogen Alice Rice Viscountess Hampden (age 32) were married. They were third cousins.

On 8th June 1956 Walter FitzUryan Rice 7th Baron Dynevor (age 82) died. His son Charles (age 56) succeeded 8th Baron Dynevor of Dynevor in Camarthenshire.

In 1959 [his former wife] Margaret Child-Villiers Baroness Dynevor (age 84) died.