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If there is one man who shaped the State Papers it was William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary (1558-72) and Lord Treasurer (1572-1598). Burghley was many men rolled into one, the consummate servant of the Crown: in Britain today he would be Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cabinet ...
5 de ago. de 2010 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Birth: 13th September 1521 in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Parents: Richard Cecil, former Groom of the Robes, Constable of Warwick Castle and High Sheriff of Rutland, and his wife Jane Heckington. Family: William Cecil had three sisters – Anne, Margaret and Elizabeth. His grandfather David Cecil had been one of ...
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 ...
Lord William Cecil (1854–1943), who married Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney. After her death in 1919, he married Violet Freer in 1924. Lady Catherine Sarah Cecil (1861–1918), married Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard. Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil (1867–1942), a Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment and MP for Stamford.
Chapter 1: Education. Unlike his great predecessors as chief minister to the Tudor monarchs, Morton, Wolsey, and Cromwell, William Cecil probably always looked forward to a career in the royal service. Born in late September 1520 at Bourne in Lincolnshire his parents were Richard Cecil, a Page in Henry VIII ’s chamber, and his wife, Jane ...
Chapter 5 : The 1553 Succession Crisis. In early 1553, Edward VI drew up a ‘ Devise for the Succession ’ which attempted to overturn the Act of Succession 1544 (see Chapter 2 ). The King’s initial plan had been to find a male, Protestant, successor (overlooking the male, Catholic Lord Darnley, and his own half-sisters).
4 de jul. de 2016 · Lady Anne Clifford recorded her thoughts about this particular scandal in her diaries. She wasn't impressed. These days the story is little known, paling as it does beside the case of Frances Carr nee HowardLady Somerset and the murder of Thomas Overbury. Anne Lake, daughter of Secretary of State Sir Thomas Lake married William Cecil,…
