Born in Washington, D.C., Brice graduated from the St. Albans School. At Princeton, he majored in history and served as editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian, among many other campus activities. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was on the Harvard Law Review and the board of editors, and won a Rotary Fellowship to study at the University of Allahabad in India.
He worked for more than four decades with the law firm of Covington & Burling. His specialties were numerous and included public and private international law, foreign claims, international arbitration, international land and maritime boundaries, transportation and environmental law, and Middle Eastern law.
In 1975, he argued before the Supreme Court in United States v. Maine. He served as chairman of the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Environmental Trust and was a member of the Clagett Family Com-mittee of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The class extends its sympathy to his wife of 20 years, Diana; his sons from his first marriage, John and Brooke; and three stepchildren.