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Sir Richard Cecil (ca. 1495 – 19 March 1553) was an English nobleman, politician, courtier, and Master of Burghley (Burleigh) in the parish of Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire. His father Sir David Cecil , of Welsh ancestry, rose in favour under King Henry VIII of England, becoming High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532 and 1533, and died ...
Sir Richard Cecil (7 December 1570 – 4 September 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1622. Cecil was the second son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and his first wife Dorothy Nevill, the daughter of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer .
Dorothy Neville, first wife of Thomas Cecil (1549–1608) Thomas Cecil was the elder son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, by his first wife, Mary Cheke (d. February 1543), daughter of Peter Cheke of Cambridge, Esquire Bedell of the University from 1509 until his death in 1529 (and sister of Sir John Cheke). [2]
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 ...
Croxteth Hall, ancestral home of the Earls of Sefton. Earl of Sefton was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1771 for the 8th Viscount Molyneux.The Earls of Sefton held the subsidiary titles Viscount Molyneux, of Maryborough (modern day Portlaoise) in the Queen's County (created 1628), in the Peerage of Ireland, and (from the 2nd Earl onwards) Baron Sefton, of Croxteth in the County ...
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A famous member was Lord William Cecil, chief minister of Queen Elizabeth Tudor and builder of Burghley House. Many other members of the family have had prominent careers in British public life as well, such as U.K. Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury of Hatfield House .