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Biography of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Paternal Family Tree: Cecil

On 11th July 1857 [his father] Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (age 27) and [his mother] Georgina Anderson (age 30) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess Salisbury (age 66) and [his grandmother] Frances Mary Gascoyne Marchioness Salisbury.

On 14th September 1864 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil was born to Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 34) and Georgina Anderson (age 37).

On 22nd January 1889 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 24) and Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 21) were married. She the daughter of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He the son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 58) and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury (age 62).

On 20th November 1899 [his mother] Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury (age 72) died.

On 22nd August 1903 [his father] Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 73) died. Monument at St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield [Map] by William Goscombe John (age 43). His son [his brother] James (age 41) succeeded 4th Marquess Salisbury in Wiltshire, 10th Earl Salisbury. Cicely Anne Gore Marchioness Salisbury (age 36) by marriage Marchioness Salisbury in Wiltshire. Note the St George Pendant signifying his being a Knight of the Garter.

Cicely Anne Gore Marchioness Salisbury: On 15th July 1867 she was born to Arthur Saunders Gore 5th Earl Arran and Edith Jocelyn. On 17th May 1887 James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess Salisbury and she were married. She the daughter of Arthur Saunders Gore 5th Earl Arran and Edith Jocelyn. He the son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury. On 5th February 1955 Cicely Anne Gore Marchioness Salisbury died.

1919. William Orpen (age 40). Portrait of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 54).

1922. Philip de László (age 52). Portrait of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 57).

On 28th December 1923 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 59) was created 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex. [his wife] Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 55) by marriage Viscountess Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex.

On 18th September 1928 [his brother-in-law] John George Lambton 3rd Earl Durham (age 73) died. His brother [his brother-in-law] Frederick (age 73) succeeded 4th Earl Durham; he died four months later. Beatrix Bulteel Countess Durham (age 69) by marriage Countess Durham.

On 31st January 1929 [his brother-in-law] Frederick Lambton 4th Earl Durham (age 73) died having held the Earldom for only four months. His son John (age 44) succeeded 5th Earl Durham.

The Times. 2nd February 1929. Obituary. We regret to announce that Elisabeth Lady Carnarvon (deceased) died yesterday morning at Portofino, to which place she had just come from Albania, the country of which she was so great a benefactor. During the War she was in Egypt and was given special powers of visiting all hospital ships and distributing comforts to the patients. During the last few years she had been living in Albania, where she established hospitals, schools, and anti-malaria clinics, for which she also provided supplies of quinine, which it had been before impossible to secure. She did good work among the people who came down from Northern Albania at the time of the famine, and established a village for refugees, which was called Herbert, after her son, Colonel Aubrey Herbert. She established Boy Scout troops, visited the prisons, and one of the last things she did was to found a library at Tirana. She made an appeal in The Times last August for the Albanian Educational Fund, of which she and Lord Cecil of Chelwood (age 64) were hon. treasurers, asking for books for the students' library and for money to found Albanian studentships abroad. The whole idea in her mind was to continue the work of her son and to forward peace in the Balkans. She was assisted in her work in Albania by Miss Durham and Mrs. Bennington. Lady Carnarvon was Elizabeth Catharine, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Howard, of Greystoke. She married, in 1878, as his second wife, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, a states man who, as Colonial Secretary and as Lord Lieuteniant of Ireland, played a notable part in the politics of his day. He died in 1890. Her elder son, Colonel Aubrey Herbert, M.P., traveller, diplomnatist, soldier, and politiciau, who died in September, 1923, was a man of an extraordinarily attractive personality, less rare a century ago perhaps than it is to-day, whose short life was crowded with adventure. His death was a great blow to his innumerable friends; what it meant to his mother can be judged to some extent by her constant devotion to the little country of which he was so faithful a friend. Lady Carnarvon was also a strong supporter of the Vocal Therapy Society, established on Armistice Day, 1918, to provide qualified teachers for ex-Servicemenu in pensions hospitals, and to form them into choirs called King's Services' Choirs. The benefit to the men by the exercise of the healing art of song has been most marked, and Lady Carnarvon was accustomed to appeal for support periodically by interesting letters in The Times. Lady Carnarvon leaves a son, the Hon. Mervyn Herbert (age 46), late of the Diplomatic Service and the Foreign Office. She was the stepmother of Baroness Burghelere (age 65), Lady Margaret Duckworth (age 58), and Lady Victoria Herbert (age 54).

On 12th March 1944 [his sister-in-law] Beatrix Louisa Lambton Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 85) died.

On 6th December 1952 [his sister-in-law] Katherine Frances Lambton Duchess Leeds (age 90) died.

On 24th November 1958 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 94) died. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex extinct.

On 24th April 1959 [his former wife] Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 91) died.

Royal Ancestors of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Philip IV King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Cecil 4th Earl Salisbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: James Cecil 5th Earl Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Bennett Countess of Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: James Cecil 6th Earl of Salisbury 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Tufton Countess of Salisbury 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: James Cecil 1st Marquess Salisbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Keet of Canterbury

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Keet Countess of Salisbury

GrandFather: James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Hill

Great x 3 Grandfather: Trevor Hill 1st Viscount Hillsborough

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Trevor

Great x 2 Grandfather: Wills Hill 1st Marquess Downshire

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Amelia Hill Marchioness Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 19th Earl of Kildare 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Clotworthy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaretta Fitzgerald 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William O'Brien 3rd Earl Inchiquin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary O'Brien Countess Kildare 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Villiers Countess Inchiquin 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Father: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Crisp Gascoyne

Great x 2 Grandfather: Bamber Gascoigne "The Elder"

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bamber of Mincing Lane

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Bamber

Great x 1 Grandfather: Bamber "The Younger" Gascoyne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Issac Green of Lancashire

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Green

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Aspinwall

GrandMother: Frances Mary Gascoyne Marchioness Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: Chase Price

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Bridget Frances Price

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Evelyn Glanville

Great x 2 Grandmother: Susan Evelyn

Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Mother: Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury