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Biography English traveller and excavator, generally known as Lady William Cecil.
His grandson William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520–98), was Elizabeth I's chief adviser for 40 years, and his descendants have remained politically powerful and culturally influential in Britain ever since. They were originally minor Welsh gentry; their name is found in a variety of forms, including Sitsylt, Ceyssel, and Sisseld.
Comment: Cecil (Lady William). Mary Rothes Margaret William Cecil, 2nd Baroness of Hackney. (1857-1919). | BIRD NOTES FROM THE NILE. By Lady William Cecil. | Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd. | London. | 1904 | Cloth a little faded & stained but good. A fair amount of foxing throughout. Two end-paper labels.
4 de ago. de 2015 · No comment yet. William Cecil. Today is the anniversary of the death of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, at his home in London in 1598. Here is a bio of this extraordinary Tudor man: Birth: 13th September 1521 in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Parents: Richard Cecil, former Groom of the Robes, Constable of Warwick Castle and High Sheriff of Rutland ...
10 de jun. de 2020 · Definition. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598 CE) was Elizabeth I of England 's most important minister for much of her reign (1558-1603 CE). Lord Burghley was Secretary of State for both Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE) and Elizabeth. He also served the latter as Lord Treasurer from 1572 to 1598 CE and, unlike many great ...
William Cecil was born into an old and wealthy family. His father, Richard Cecil, owned the vast Burghley estate in Northamptonshire (now in Cambridgeshire) and his mother was Jane Heckington. Cecil's grandfather, David, had been King Henry VII 's (1457–1509) yeoman of the guard, and he had served under Henry VIII (1491–1547; see entry) as sergeant-of-arms and as sheriff of Northamptonshire.
23 de may. de 2024 · 00:00. 00:00. Mary, Queen of Scots to Sir William Cecil, Tutbury, 23 May 1570 (SP53/5 f.72) Some of Mary’s letters to Cecil during her imprisonment are written in Scottish-English, like this one; others are in French. She refers to John Leslie, bishop of Ross, who was her ambassador to Elizabeth.
