Biography of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Paternal Family Tree: Cecil

On 14 Sep 1864 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil was born to Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 34).

On 22 Jan 1889 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 24) and Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 21) were married. She the daughter of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He the son of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury (age 58). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 18 Apr 1910 [his brother-in-law] Hedworth Lambton aka Meux (age 53) and Mildred Cecilia Sturt Lady Montagu (age 41) were married. He the son of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 31 Oct 1914 [his brother-in-law] Francis Lambton (age 43) was killed in action at Zandvorde.

1919. William Orpen (age 40). Portrait of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 54).

On 22 Apr 1921 [his brother-in-law] William Lambton (age 57) and Katherine De Vere Beauclerk (age 43) were married. She the daughter of William Amelius Aubrey Beauclerk 10th Duke St Albans and Grace Bernal Duchess St Albans (age 73). He the son of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Before 22 Aug 1921 [his brother-in-law] Brigadier-General Charles Lambton (age 63) and Lavinia Marion Garforth (age 36) were married. The difference in their ages was 26 years. He the son of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

1922. Philip de László (age 52). Portrait of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 57).

On 24 Feb 1922 [his sister-in-law] Anne Lambton (age 52) died.

On 28 Dec 1923 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 59) was created 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex. [his wife] Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 55) by marriage Viscountess Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex.

The Times. 02 Feb 1929. Obituary. We regret to announce that Elisabeth Lady Carnarvon (deceased)¬died yesterday morning at Portofino, to which place she had just come from Albania, the country of which she was so great a benefactor. During the War she was in Egypt and was given special powers of visiting all hospital ships and distributing comforts to the patients. During the last few years she had been living in Albania, where she established hospitals, schools, and anti-malaria clinics, for which she also provided supplies of quinine, which it had been before impossible to secure. She did good work among the people who came down from Northern Albania at the time of the famine, and established a village for refugees, which was called Herbert, after her son, Colonel Aubrey Herbert. She established Boy Scout troops, visited the prisons, and one of the last things she did was to found a library at Tirana. She made an appeal in The Times last August for the Albanian Educational Fund, of which she and Lord Cecil of Chelwood (age 64) were hon. treasurers, asking for books for the students' library and for money to found Albanian studentships abroad. The whole idea in her mind was to continue the work of her son and to forward peace in the Balkans. She was assisted in her work in Albania by Miss Durham and Mrs. Bennington. Lady Carnarvon was Elizabeth Catharine, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Howard, of Greystoke. She married, in 1878, as his second wife, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, a states man who, as Colonial Secretary and as Lord Lieuteniant of Ireland, played a notable part in the politics of his day. He died in 1890. Her elder son, Colonel Aubrey Herbert, M.P., traveller, diplomnatist, soldier, and politiciau, who died in September, 1923, was a man of an extraordinarily attractive personality, less rare a century ago perhaps than it is to-day, whose short life was crowded with adventure. His death was a great blow to his innumerable friends; what it meant to his mother can be judged to some extent by her constant devotion to the little country of which he was so faithful a friend. Lady Carnarvon was also a strong supporter of the Vocal Therapy Society, established on Armistice Day, 1918, to provide qualified teachers for ex-Servicemenu in pensions hospitals, and to form them into choirs called King's Services' Choirs. The benefit to the men by the exercise of the healing art of song has been most marked, and Lady Carnarvon was accustomed to appeal for support periodically by interesting letters in The Times. Lady Carnarvon leaves a son, the Hon. Mervyn Herbert (age 46), late of the Diplomatic Service and the Foreign Office. She was the stepmother of Baroness Burghelere (age 65), Lady Margaret Duckworth (age 58), and Lady Victoria Herbert (age 54).

On 20 Sep 1929 [his brother-in-law] Hedworth Lambton aka Meux (age 73) died.

On 11 Oct 1936 [his brother-in-law] William Lambton (age 72) died.

On 15 Feb 1945 [his brother-in-law] Claud Lambton (age 80) died.

On 23 Jul 1945 [his brother-in-law] George Lambton (age 84) died.

On 05 Dec 1949 [his brother-in-law] Brigadier-General Charles Lambton (age 92) died.

On 30 Dec 1954 [his brother-in-law] D'Arcy Lambton Lambton (age 88) died.

On 24 Nov 1958 Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil (age 94) died. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood of East Grinstead in Sussex extinct.

On 24 Apr 1959 [his former wife] Eleanor Lambton Viscountess Cecil (age 91) died.

George Lambton and Cicely Margaret Horner were married. He the son of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Royal Ancestors of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of William "Lion" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Philip "The Fair" IV King France

Ancestors of Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 1864-1958

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Cecil 4th Earl Salisbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: James Cecil 5th Earl Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Bennett Countess of Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: James "Wicked Earl" Cecil 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Tufton Countess of Salisbury 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward IV of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: James Cecil 1st Marquess Salisbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Keet

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Keet

GrandFather: James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Hill

Great x 3 Grandfather: Trevor Hill 1st Viscount Hillsborough

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Trevor

Great x 2 Grandfather: Wills Hill 1st Marquess Downshire

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Amelia Hill Marchioness Salisbury 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Fitzgerald 19th Earl of Kildare 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Clotworthy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaretta Fitzgerald 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William O'Brien 3rd Earl Inchiquin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary O'Brien Countess Kildare 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Villiers Countess Inchiquin 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Father: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Crisp Gascoyne

Great x 2 Grandfather: Bamber Gascoigne "The Elder"

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bamber of Mincing Lane

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Bamber

Great x 1 Grandfather: Bamber "The Younger" Gascoyne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Issac Green of Lancashire

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Green

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Aspinwall

GrandMother: Frances Mary Gascoyne Marchioness Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: Chase Price

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Bridget Frances Price

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Evelyn Glanville

Great x 2 Grandmother: Susan Evelyn

Edgar Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward IV of England