William Cecil (Military, 1854)

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Lord William Cecil, 1912

Lord William Cecil CVO GCStJ ( November 2, 1854 - April 16, 1943 ) was a British nobleman , military man and courtier .

Life

Cecil was the third son of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter , and Lady Georgiana Sophia Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford . As the younger son of a marquess , he used the courtesy address "Lord" William Cecil from 1867 .

In 1874 he began an officer career in the British Army . In 1884 and 1885 he took part as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in the Suakin Expedition under Brigadier General Gerald Graham to combat the Mahdi uprising in Sudan and was then promoted to captain . In 1890 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and became Commander and Honorary Colonel of the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment . In 1902 he resigned from regular army service.

From 1892 to 1901 he held the court office of a groom-in-waiting for Queen Victoria . In 1909 he was named Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and later accepted as the Bailiff Grand Cross in the Order of Saint John . On the occasion of World War I , he was reactivated from 1916 to 1920 as a reserve officer in a volunteer regiment of the Territorial Force .

From 1924 to 1936 he was Extra Gentleman Usher for King George V , in 1936 for King Edward VIII and in 1937 for King George VI.

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage in 1885 he married Mary Thyssen-Amherst (1857-1919), daughter of William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney , who in 1909 inherited the title of Baroness Amherst of Hackney . With her he had four sons:

  • Hon. William Amherst Cecil (1886–1914), Captain of the British Army, ⚭ Gladys Evelyn Baggallay;
  • Hon. Thomas James Amherst Cecil (1887–1955), Captain of the British Army, ⚭ Vera Agnes Barclay;
  • Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954) ⚭ Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II ;
  • Hon. Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil (1893–1962), Commander of the Royal Navy, Squadron Leader of the Royal Air Force, ⚭ Hon. Yvonne Cornwallis, daughter of Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis .

When his wife Mary died in 1919, his eldest son William had died in the First World War in 1914. His eldest son, Cecil's grandson, William (1912–1980), as 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney inherited their title of nobility .

In 1924 Cecil married Violet Maud Freer († 1957), widow of Herbert Oswald Collyer. The marriage remained childless.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25497, HMSO, London, August 4, 1885, p. 3601 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26042, HMSO, London, April 15, 1890, p. 2201 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27473, HMSO, London, September 19, 1902, p. 5889 ( PDF , English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29743, HMSO, London, September 8, 1916, p. 8897 ( PDF , English).
  5. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31820, HMSO, London, March 9, 1920, p. 3147 ( PDF , English).

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personal data
SURNAME Cecil, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cecil, Lord William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1854
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1943