Robert Cecil (other)
Robert Cecil may refer to: * Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), English administrator and politician, MP for Westminster, and for Hertfordshire * Robert Cecil (1670–1716), Member of Parliament for Castle Rising, and for Wootton Basset * Robert Cecil (MP for Old Sarum) (died 1657), English politician * Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958) British lawyer, politician and diplomat * Robert Cecil (British diplomat) Robert Cecil (25 March 1913 – 28 February 1994) was a British diplomat and writer. Life, education, and career Robert Cecil was born in Southbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth, Hampshire (now in Dorset) in southern England on 25 March 191 ... (1913–1994), British diplomat and writer * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (other), several people See also * Cecil Roberts (other) {{hndis, name=Cecil, Robert ...
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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl Of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, (1 June 156324 May 1612), was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart period, Stuart rule (1603). Lord Salisbury served as the Secretary of State (England), Secretary of State of England (1596–1612) and Lord High Treasurer (1608–1612), succeeding his William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, father as Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Privy Seal and remaining in power during the first nine years of King James VI and I, James I's reign until his own death. The principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Robert Cecil remains a controversial historic figure as it is still debated at what point he first learned of the plot and to what extent he acted as an ''agent provocateur''. Early life and family Cecil (created Earl of Salisbury in 1605) was the younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by his second wife, Mildred Cooke, eldest daughter of Sir An ...
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Robert Cecil (1670–1716)
Robert Cecil (1670 – 23 February 1716), of St. Anne's, Westminster and King's Walden, Hertfordshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1710, Cecil was baptized on 6 November 1670, the second son of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. He married by licence dated 28 July 1690, Elizabeth Hale, for whom he had once fought a duel and been wounded. She was the widow of William Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire, and daughter and heir of Isaac Meynell of Meynell Langley, Derbyshire. Cecil stood unsuccessfully for Hertfordshire at the 1695 English general election on the Whig interest. He became a commissioner for taking subscriptions to land bank in 1696 and tried again for Hertfordshire unsuccessfully in 1697. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising by the Howard family at a by-election on 30 April 1701 but did ...
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Robert Cecil (MP For Old Sarum)
Robert Cecil (died August 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. Cecil was the son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge in October 1634. In November 1640, Cecil was elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in the Long Parliament. Though not excluded in 1648 he was not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England. Despite defeat in the .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cecil, Robert Year of birth missing 1657 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 ...
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Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil Of Chelwood
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923,As the younger son of a Marquess, Cecil held the courtesy title of "Lord". However, he was not a peer in his own right until he was made a Viscount in 1923 and so was eligible to sit in the House of Commons between 1906 and 1923. was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937. Early life and legal career Cecil was born at Cavendish Square, London, the sixth child and third son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, three times prime minister, and Georgina, daughter of Sir Edward Hall Alderson. He was the brother of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Lord William Cecil, Lord Edward Cecil and Lord Quickswood and the cousin of Arthur Balfour. ...
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Robert Cecil (British Diplomat)
Robert Cecil (25 March 1913 – 28 February 1994) was a British diplomat and writer. Life, education, and career Robert Cecil was born in Southbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth, Hampshire (now in Dorset) in southern England on 25 March 1913. He graduated from the University of Cambridge. He married Kathleen Marindin in 1938, and they had one son and two daughters. He was seconded to Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, the wartime head of MI6, for two years during the war."A Divided Life", 1988, author biography summary During his career in the diplomatic service, from 1945 to 1967, Cecil served in the Foreign Office; as First Secretary in Washington, D.C.; as a Counsellor and Consul General in Europe, as Director-General of British Information Services, and latterly as Head of the Cultural Relations Department at the Foreign Office. He had been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1959 Birthday Honours. According to Cecil's obituary in ''The In ...
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (other)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil may refer to: * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British statesman and Prime Minister * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958), British politician and diplomat, and an architect of the League of Nations * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893–1972), prominent Tory politician * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury (1916–2003), Conservative Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, (born 30 September 1946), is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he wa ...