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William Cecil’s managerial experiences began early in the reign of Edward VI. Fresh from Cambridge and Gray’s Inn, he rose meteorically. In his late twenties he became the right-hand man of Protector Somerset; when Somerset fell in 1549, Cecil was imprisoned in the Tower for a brief time, and then quickly became equally close to Somerset’s successor, Northumberland.
William Cecil, Königin Elisabeth I. und Francis Walsingham (Kupferstich von William Faithorne, 1655) William Cecil trug in hohem Maße zu Elisabeths Neuordnung der englischen Kirche bei (Anglican Settlement). Cecil fürchtete den Katholizismus mehr als politische denn als religiöse Gefahr.
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 ...
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, 2nd Earl of Exeter, KG PC (1566 – 6 July 1640), known as the third Lord Burghley from 1605 to 1623, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. Life [ edit ] Exeter was the son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter , and Dorothy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer . [1]
William Cecil’s consistent attention to Ireland was not lost on members of the Tudor political establishment: he became towards the end of his career in the eyes of some the ‘careful father’ of the kingdom of Ireland, with Elizabeth implicitly cast as its distant and disinterested mother.
During the 1590s new threats arose – rebellion in Ireland, faction at home as Burghley’s former ward, the Earl of Essex and his son, Robert Cecil, clashed for supremacy. Spain, too, was undefeated and there were always fears of invasion. By 1598, Burghley was weakening, but he continued to attend Council meetings whenever he could, his last ...
