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7 de mar. de 2019 · William Cecil. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of the 1st Baron Burghley, Elizabeth I's powerful Secretary of State who advanced England's interests throughout her reign ...
21 de may. de 2018 · Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron (1520–98) English statesman and chief minister of Elizabeth I of England. He was secretary of state (1550–53) under Edward VI but failed to win Mary I 's favour on her accession to the throne. On Mary's death, Elizabeth I made Burghley secretary of state (1558–72) and then lord high treasurer (1572–98).
Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (paternal grandmother) William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (paternal great-grandfather) William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (August 17, 1928 – October 31, 2017) was an English - American businessman. He was the owner of the Biltmore Estate through his company, The Biltmore Company .
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. (1520 or 1521-1598), Lord High Treasurer. Sitter associated with 45 portraits. William Cecil served both Edward VI and Mary I but exercised most power when chief minister to their sister Elizabeth I. When she ascended to the throne, Elizabeth's first appointment was to make Cecil her principal secretary of ...
8 de sept. de 2018 · William Cecil was born on September 13, 1520 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, to Sir Richard Cecil, the owner of Burghley Castle, and his wife Jane Heckington. William was the couple’s only son and he was put to school first at Grantham and then at Stamford. In May 1535, at the age of fourteen, he went up to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he ...
23 de sept. de 2015 · Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, seems the very epitome of the faceless bureaucrat. He served Queen Elizabeth I for 40 years, first as Secretary, then as Lord Treasurer. He was at her side from the very first moment of her reign, until a few days before his death in 1598. During this time he wrote thousands of memos, dictated thousands more ...
William Cecil, raised to the peerage as first Baron Burghley, who served as secretary of state under Edward VI and then as Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister and lord high treasurer of England, more than any other individual of the age, it will be argued, dictated the course and the character of the connection between England and Ireland in the sixteenth century.
