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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 ...
George Cecil's company, called Biltmore Farms, focused on development, including Biltmore Park. [1] George and Edith Vanderbilt were very environmentally conscious, and they sold over 86,000 acres of the surrounding land to the government to create the Pisgah National Forest. The Biltmore Company values the importance of forest preservation and ...
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.
The 1776 Commission, also nicknamed the 1776 Project, [1] [2] is an advisory committee established in September 2020 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump to support what he called "patriotic education". [3] The commission released The 1776 Report on January 18, 2021, two days before the end of Trump's term of office. [4]
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
Educated at the University of St Andrews, he was formerly a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (1997–99) and junior research fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and, between 1999 and 2012, a fellow in history at King's College, Cambridge. [1] He has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society ...
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards: the supposed Seckford figure is seated mid-left. Thomas Seckford or Thomas Sakford [1] Esquire (1515–1587) was a senior lawyer, a "man of business" [2] at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, a landowner of the armigerous Suffolk gentry, Member of Parliament, [1] [3] and public benefactor of the town of Woodbridge. [4]
William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (brother) George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (February 27, 1925 – October 19, 2020) was an American businessman who was the owner and chairman of Biltmore Farms . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]