William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter

William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, caricature in Vanity Fair , 1881

William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter PC ( April 30, 1825 - July 14, 1895 ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party .

origin

He was the elder son of Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter , and his wife Isabella Poyntz, daughter of House of Commons William Stephen Poyntz. As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title of Lord Burghley . He studied at St. John's College of Cambridge University , where he was also president of the University Club Pittsburgh.

Between 1847 and 1851 he played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Cambridge University.

He was MP for South Lincolnshire in the House of Commons between 1847 and 1857 and then for North Northamptonshire until 1867 . In the government of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , he was Treasurer of the Household from 1866 until his father died in 1867. So he inherited the title of nobility as Marquess of Exeter and received a seat in the House of Lords . From March 1867 to December 1868 he was Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms . The past nine months have already been in the government of Benjamin Disraeli . In 1866 he became a member of the Privy Council .

He married on October 17, 1848 Georgina Sophia Pakenham (1828-1909), daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford . They had nine children:

Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter (1849-1898);
Lord Francis Horace Pierrepont Cecil (1851–1889), ⚭ Edith Brookes, daughter of Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet;
Lord William Cecil (1854–1943), ⚭ (1) Mary Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney , ⚭ (2) Violet Freer;
Lady Catherine Sarah Cecil (1861–1918), ⚭ Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard ;
Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil (1867-1942), British Army Colonel;
Lady Isabella Georgiana Katherine Cecil († 1903), ⚭ William Battie-Wrightson;
Lady Mary Louisa Wellesley Cecil († 1930), ⚭ James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands ,
Lady Louisa Alexandrina Cecil († 1950);
Lady Frances Emily Cecil († 1951).

His eldest son, Brownlow, inherited his title of nobility in 1895 and later also became a minister.

^ Fletcher, Walter Morley .: The University Pitt Club, 1835-1935 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5 .
^ The Home of CricketArchive. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
↑ Entry on www.leighrayment.com
↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Burke's Peerage, 2003, ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9 .
↑ London Gazette . No. 23137, HMSO, London, July 13, 1866, p. 3983 ( PDF , English).

predecessor	Office	successor
Brownlow Cecil	Marquess of Exeter 1867-1895	Brownlow Cecil

personal data
SURNAME	Cecil, William, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cecil, William Alleyne, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (full name); Cecil, William, Lord Burghley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British peer and politician of the Conservative Pyrty
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1825
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1895