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William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
The Biltmore Company is an American firm that owns and operates Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.The company is owned by the family of William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, the younger grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II.
On April 29, 1924, [3] Cornelia was married to a British aristocrat who was then the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, [8] Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954), the son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Cecil, Baroness Amherst of Hackney. [12] The Cecils were descendants of William Cecil. [13]
Cecil was a direct descendant of both William Henry Vanderbilt and, on his father's side, William Cecil, the chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century, through his grandparents, Lord William Cecil and Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil, Baroness Amherst of Hackney.
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020) John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017) Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928) Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (born 1929)
Through his third son, he was grandfather to George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020), the owner and operator of Biltmore Farms, and William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017), the operator of the Biltmore Estate through his company, The Biltmore Company. [23]
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William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017) [6] who married Mary Lee Ryan (1931–2017), [7] a first cousin of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, as their mothers, Janet Norton Lee and Marion Merritt Lee, were sisters. [8] Around 1932, reportedly finding life at Biltmore too dull, his wife moved to New York City to study art, leaving Cecil to manage ...