Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil (3 March 1867 – 25 June 1942) was a British

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politician. Joicey-Cecil was the fourth son of

William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter PC (30 April 1825 – 14 July 1895), styled Lord Burghley between 1825 and 1867, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household between 1866 and 1867 and as ...

, and his wife Lady Georgina Sophia, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford.

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and Lord William Cecil were his elder brothers. He was commissioned an officer in the

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. After resigning from the regular army, he was appointed

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in the 4th (

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) Battalion, the

Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments ...

on 17 November 1897. After his elder brother Lord William resigned from his command of the battalion, Lord John was on 25 October 1902 appointed in command and promoted

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. Joicey-Cecil was elected to the

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for Stamford in 1906, a seat he held until

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. In April 1910, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

. Joicey-Cecil married Isabella Maud Joicey in 1896 and assumed the additional surname of Joicey. He died in June 1942, aged 75.

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire UK MPs 1906–1910

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