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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 Cecils were descendants of William Cecil. [13] The nationally renowned organist from St. Louis Charles Henry Galloway played organ at the wedding. They divorced in 1934. [14] Cornelia Vanderbilt and Cecil were the parents of two sons: [15] George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020), who married Nancy Owen (1930–2016). [16]
After that, his son William Henry Vanderbilt acquired his father's fortune, and was the richest American until his death in 1885. The Vanderbilts' prominence lasted until the mid-20th century, when the family's 10 great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down, and most other Vanderbilt houses were sold or turned into museums in what has been ...
As his eldest son, Capt. Hon. William Amherst Cecil died on 16 September 1914 during the First Battle of the Aisne whilst serving with 2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards, Cecil's grandson, William Alexander Evering Cecil (1912–1980), [18] succeeded Cecil's wife as the 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney upon her death in 1919.
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.
John Francis Amherst Cecil was born on 30 June 1890 in London, England. He was the third son of Lord William Cecil (1854–1943) and Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (1857–1919). After the death of his mother in 1919, his father remarried to Violet Maud (née Freer) Collyer. [2]
However, after George Vanderbilt's death, both Biltmore Village and Biltmore Estate Industries were sold in an effort to maintain focus on the estate itself. [3] The Biltmore Company was started in 1933, and it was divided between William Cecil and his elder brother (George Cecil) in the late 1970s.
William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017), American businessman, son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–1885), American businessman, son of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt