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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, held by a branch of the Cecil family.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.
Cecil-Bishop (sometimes referred to by simply its inner communities, Cecil or Bishop) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,730 at the 2020 census. The census-designated place encompasses two unincorporated communities: larger Cecil in the west and smaller Bishop in the east.
Cecil is an unincorporated community in central Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] It has a post office with the ZIP code 15321. This ZIP covers the western portion of the Cecil-Bishop CDP. [2] The population was 1,676 at the 2010 census. [3] Cecil is located in the geographical center of Cecil Township.
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.
Cecil Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a suburb in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 14,609 at the 2020 census. [2] The township contains the Southpointe suburban business park; companies based there include Ansys, Consol Energy, Millcraft Industries and Mylan.
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.
The family had extensive land holdings in the country and the fifth Marquess (Cecil's grandfather) was a leading British supporter of the white minority UDI government that ruled Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979. Cecil was the eldest of the younger brothers of Viscount Cranborne, who has been both an MP and the Leader of the House of Lords.