Richard Cecil († 1633)

Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley ( December 7, 1570 , † before September 4, 1633 ) was an English politician.

Cecil was the second son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and his wife Dorothy Nevil, daughter of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer . William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter and Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon were his brothers.

He studied from 1585 at St John's College, Cambridge , and from 1591 at Gray's Inn . He was the squire of Wakerley in Northamptonshire . In 1593 he was a member of the House of Commons as Burgess for Westminster , in 1604 for Peterborough and in 1614 and 1621 for Stamford . In 1605 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire, in 1607 administrator of the Collyweston Estate in Northamptonshire and in 1613 Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. In 1616 he was promoted to Knight Bachelor .

Cecil died in 1633 and was buried in Wakerley on September 4, 1633.

In 1603 he married Elizabeth Cope, daughter of Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet . With her he had a daughter, Elizabeth Cecil, who married J. Havers, and a son, David Cecil , who in 1640 inherited Richard's older brother William as 3rd Earl of Exeter and 4th Baron Burghley .

Web links

CECIL, Richard (1570-1633), of Wakerley, Northants. | History of Parliament Online. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
Sir Richard Cecil on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Cecil († 1633) . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. 10 volumes, 1922-1958. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk ).

personal data
SURNAME	Cecil, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cecil of Wakerley, Sir Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1570
DATE OF DEATH	September 4, 1633

[1] Richard Cecil († 1633) . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. 10 volumes, 1922-1958. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk ).