Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter

Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, caricature in the Vanity Fair , 1887

Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter PC DL ( December 20, 1849 - April 9, 1898 ) was a British politician and Conservative politician. In 1891 and 1892 he was Vice Chamberlain of the Household .

origin

Cecil was the eldest son of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter and Georgiana Sophia Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford . As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title of Lord Burghley from 1867 .

Politician

Between 1877 and 1895 he was a Member of the House of Commons for Northamptonshire North . In 1891, when his distant relative Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , was Prime Minister, he became Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and a member of the Privy Council .

At the death of his father in 1895 he inherited his title of nobility as Marquess of Exeter , Earl of Exeter and Baron Burghley and received a seat in the House of Lords . In addition to his political career, he was Captain of the Grenadier Guards and Honorary Colonel of the 3rd and 4th Bartallons of the Northamptonshire Regiment . He was also a temporary deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire .

family

In 1875 he married Isabella Whichcote († 1917), daughter of Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th Baronet . With her he had a child, William (1876-1956), who inherited him when he died in 1898 at the age of 48.

Individual evidence

↑ The House of Commons Constitencies at Leigh Rayment 'Peerage
↑ London Gazette . No. 26226, HMSO, London, November 24, 1891, p. 6230 ( PDF , English).
↑ London Gazette . No. 26321, HMSO, London, August 30, 1892, p. 4958 ( PDF , English).
↑ London Gazette . No. 26233, HMSO, London, December 15, 1891, p. 6911 ( PDF , English).

Web links

Lord Burghley at Hansard (English)
Brownlow Henry George Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter on thepeerage.com
Exeter, Marquess of (UK, 1801) at Cracroft's Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
William Cecil	Marquess of Exeter 1895-1898	William Cecil

personal data
SURNAME	Cecil, Brownlow, 4th Marquess of Exeter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cecil, Brownlow, Lord Burghley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British peer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1849
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1898

[1] The House of Commons Constitencies at Leigh Rayment 'Peerage

[2] London Gazette . No. 26226, HMSO, London, November 24, 1891, p. 6230 ( PDF , English).

[3] London Gazette . No. 26321, HMSO, London, August 30, 1892, p. 4958 ( PDF , English).

[4] London Gazette . No. 26233, HMSO, London, December 15, 1891, p. 6911 ( PDF , English).