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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - Statesman, Adviser, Queen Elizabeth I: As a statesman Burghley saw that his duty was to give the Queen his best advice and then to carry out whatever policy seemed expedient to her. His loyalty in this task won Elizabeth’s confidence. A master of discretion, Burghley as a royal servant assumed an official mask and learned “to walk invisible.” His ...
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (September 13, 1520 – August 4, 1598) was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign (November 17, 1558 – March 24, 1603), and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Cecil became the main architect of Elizabeth’s religious and political policies, and was substantially ...
Remarkably, Sir William Cecil Lord Burghley retained his office as Queen Elizabeth’s primary servant from the first day of her reign, 17 November 1558, until his last breath in 1598. 1 Given the fates of other chief ministers of the Crown in Tudor England and on the Continent, this was a fine achievement, and it means both that his values and management assumptions became integral to the ...
William Cecil was born on 28 Mar. 1591, the only son of Robert Cecil, secretary of state to both Elizabeth I and James I. He was created a knight of the Bath on 6 Jan. 1605 and four months later, when his father was created earl of Salisbury, became known by the courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. As the only heir to the earldom he lived an ...
Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil (9 March 1863 – 23 June 1936) was Bishop of Exeter from 1916 to 1936. He was the second son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was rector of Hatfield for 28 years before being appointed a bishop. Married in 1887, he had three daughters and four sons, three of whom were ...
William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley, KG, PC (ur. 13 września 1520 w Bourne, zm. 4 sierpnia 1598 w Londynie) – angielski polityk, kanclerz i doradca Elżbiety I, Lord Wielki Skarbnik od 1572 do 1598. Był synem Richarda Cecila i Jane Heckington. W latach 1535-41 studiował w St John’s College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge [1].
Lord Burghley 500. Celebrating the 500th anniversary of William Cecil’s birth. Immediately on her accession in 1558, Queen Elizabeth I appointed William Cecil by her personal charge as her most trusted advisor. Thus began the most remarkable 40-year partnership in English history, both of them living to almost twice the life expectancy of the ...
