Educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was vicar of Horley, Surrey (1828-53), assistant Master at Christ's Hospital (1818-36), and head master (1836-53). A friend of Keats and Hood, he died a suicide.

REFERENCES TO Edward Rice:

Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [January 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)