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A famous member was Lord William Cecil, chief minister of Queen Elizabeth Tudor and builder of Burghley House. Many other members of the family have had prominent careers in British public life as well, such as U.K. Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury of Hatfield House .
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.
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (February 27, 1925 – October 19, 2020) was an American businessman who was the owner and chairman of Biltmore Farms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography
Burghley House (/ ˈ b ɜːr l i / [1]) is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire.It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.
Quartered arms of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, KG Coat of arms of William Cecil as found in John Gerard's The herball or Generall historie of plantes (1597). William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley KG PC (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord ...
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, KG, KCVO, PC, DL (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 was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.
The title is chiefly associated with the Cecil family, descended from the courtier Sir Richard Cecil of the parish of Stamford Baron St Martin in Northamptonshire.His only son, Sir William Cecil, was a prominent statesman and served as Secretary of State, Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal.
Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, later Cecil, later Bulkely-Johnson, later Goodsir (August 22, 1900 – February 7, 1976) [1] was an American born heiress and member of the Vanderbilt family who inherited the Biltmore Estate. [2]