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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 ...
Cecil was the son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Elizabeth (née Brooke), the daughter of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham. [1] He was born in Westminster on 28 March 1591 and baptized in St Clement Danes on 11 April. [1] William's mother died when he was six years old, and he was subsequently raised by his aunt, Lady Frances ...
This is a list of the principal government ministers during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, 1558 to 1603. From the outset of her reign, her chief minister was Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley. He died in 1598 and was succeeded by his son Sir Robert Cecil.
Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain, held by a branch of the Cecil family.It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. [1] Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries, particularly the 3rd Marquess, who served three times as Prime Minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter (1566 – 6 July 1640), known as the third Lord Burghley from 1605 to 1623, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. Life
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.
Cecil was close to Elizabeth even before she was queen, and their personal relationship was described as one of confidence, trust, and mutual respect. [2] Cecil played an important role in some of the first businesses of the Queen's government; the making of peace with France and Scotland and the re-establishment of a reformed polity in the church.
William Paget 1st Baron Paget: 1555 1558 Nicholas Bacon: 1558 1571 Elizabeth I r. 1558–1603; William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley: 1571 1572 William Howard 1st Baron Howard of Effingham: 1572 1573 Thomas Smith MP for Essex: 1573 1576 Francis Walsingham MP for Surrey: 1576 1590 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley: 1590 1598 Robert Cecil 1st Earl of ...