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Quartered arms of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, KG Coat of arms of William Cecil as found in John Gerard's The herball or Generall historie of plantes (1597). William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High ...
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.
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Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. [1] At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, and the foreword of his translation, which is dedicated to Burghley, alludes to their school-days together.
The long-term goal of the plot was the invasion of England by the Spanish forces of King Philip II and the Catholic League in France, leading to the restoration of the old religion. The plot was discovered by Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and used to entrap Mary for the purpose of removing her as a claimant to the English throne.
William Cecil may refer to: Lord William Cecil (courtier) (1854–1943), British royal courtier; Lord William Cecil (bishop) (1863–1936), Bishop of Exeter, 1916–1936; William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), English politician and advisor to Elizabeth I; William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter (1566–1640), Knight of the Garter
Vannevar Bush, director of the office of scientific research and development for the U.S. government, wrote in July 1945 that "science is a proper concern of government" [15] This report led to the creation of the National Science Foundation in 1950 to support civilian scientific research.
Richard Cecil may refer to: Richard Cecil (priest) (1748–1810), Anglican clergyman; Richard Cecil (courtier) (died 1552), English courtier and father of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley; Richard Cecil (poet) (born 1944), American poet; Lord Richard Cecil (1948–1978), British soldier and journalist; Richard Cecil (died 1633) (1570–1633 ...