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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 .
Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. [1] Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries, particularly the 3rd Marquess, who served three times as Prime Minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Wothorpe Towers are the remains of Wothorpe Hall (also known as Wothorpe Lodge), a late-Elizabethan, early-Jacobean country house in Wothorpe, Cambridgeshire, England.Built for the Cecil family in the early 1600s, the house was occupied for 150 years before it was partially demolished, with only the towers and outer walls surviving.
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 Cecil family fostered arts: they supported musicians such as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Robinson, [48] and the Irish harper and composer Cormac MacDermott. [49] Byrd composed his famous pavane The Earle of Salisbury in his memory. Salisbury's motto was "Sero, sed serio", which can be translated as 'late but in earnest'. [50]
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for people suffering from poverty and homelessness and living on the margins, has died.
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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.