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Sir Robert Cecil features prominently in Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy's play The O'Neill (1969), in which Kilroy uses Cecil to challenge the myth surrounding Gaelic Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, just after the latter's victory over the English at The Yellow Ford. Cecil's dramatic function is to demonstrate the complexity of history as opposed ...
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, [1] was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat.
Cecil was known as fat Cecil and was reported in 1704 as having been 30 stone. He suffered continually from ill-health and died on 23 February 1716. He left his estates to his widow Elizabeth, by whom he had three sons and two daughters [1] including Charles, who became Bishop of Bangor, and Margaret, who married Sir Robert Brown Bt. [2]
Robert Cecil may refer to: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), English administrator and politician, MP for Westminster, and for Hertfordshire Robert Cecil (1670–1716) , Member of Parliament for Castle Rising, and for Wootton Basset
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 (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 High ...
Sir William Cecil: 1558 Sir Thomas Smith: 1572 Sir Thomas Smith Francis Walsingham: 1573 Sir Francis Walsingham Thomas Wilson: 1577 Sir Francis Walsingham: 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham William Davison: 1586 Sir Francis Walsingham: 1587 vacant: 1590 Sir Robert Cecil: 1596 Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Richard Sackville Sir Walter Mildmay: 1566 ...
Beltrees had written to "10", Sir Robert Cecil, in the Duke's name. Such diplomatic initiatives, outside the circle of the secret correspondents, were jealously resented. [30] A letter from number "7" mentions a list of English gentlewomen of the "greatest account" sent to King James.
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.