Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, PC (30 May 1865 – 1 April 1941) was a British, Conservative Party politician. Evelyn Cecil was born in the parish of

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in the heart of London's

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. Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil, grandson of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, and cousin of both Sir

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and Arthur Balfour. He was educated at Eton and

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. Cecil was Private Secretary from 1891 to 1892, to the Prime Minister, his uncle, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, during the latter's second term and during his third term from 1895 to 1902. On 16 February 1898, Cecil had married Hon.

Alicia Amherst Alicia Margaret Tyssen Amherst, Baroness Rockley (30 July 1865 – 14 September 1941) was an English horticulturist, botanist, and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. Family and personal life Alicia Amherst was ...

(a garden historian and daughter of William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) and they had three children: Robert William Evelyn, later 2nd Baron Rockley (28 February 1901– 26 January 1976), Margaret Gertrude (27 November 1898 – 26 August 1962) and Maud Katharine Alicia (21 November 1904 - 12 June 1981). Cecil served as a Member of Parliament from 1898 to 1929 and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the

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. He was raised to the

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on 11 January 1934 as Baron Rockley, of Lytchett Heath, in the

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. He died in 1941 in

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aged 75.

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