Margaret Spring Rice

Margery Spring Rice (10 June 1887 – 21 April 1970) was a British social reformer. She was Secretary of the League of Nations Society and a founding member of the National Birth Control Association (later Family Planning Association). She authored the book Working-Class Wives: Their Health and Conditions in 1939. Early life Spring Rice was born in London, the daughter of Clara Thornbury and Samuel Garrett (solicitor and president of the Law Society). She was niece to Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Spring Rice studied at Bedford College before reading Moral Sciences at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1907 to 1910. She subsequently trained as a factory inspector. In April 1911, she married Captain Charles Edward Coursolles Jones, who was killed in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. The couple had two sons, Ronald and Charles Garrett-Jones. In 1919, she married financier (Edward) Dominick Spring Rice, with whom she had two children, Stephen and (Theodosia) Cecil. Edward and Margery divorced in 1936. Her son Stephen died, on Christmas Day 1942, while serving in a submarine in the Mediterranean.