British biographer, historian, and scholar (1902 – 1986)
Lord David Cecil
CH
Born
Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil
(1902-04-09)9 April 1902
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
Died
1 January 1986(1986-01-01) (aged 83)
Cranborne, Dorset, England
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
Occupations
Biographer
Historian
Academic
Employers
Wadham College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
Spouse
Rachel MacCarthy
(m. 1932)
Children
3, including Jonathan
Parents
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
Lady Cicely Gore
Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy as a younger son of a marquess.
Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord"...
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Exeter. Cecil notably served under Queen Elizabeth I and later King James I as Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Privy Seal...
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actor. Cecil was born on 22 February 1939, in Westminster, the son of LordDavidCecil and the grandson of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather...
of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic LordDavidCecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated...
Dramatic Society and President of the Asiatic Society. Along with LordDavidCecil and R. E. Gathorne-Hardy he founded the Uffizi Society, of which he...
Charles James (designer), 1929 Lillian Gish, 1929 Oliver Messel, 1929 LordDavidCecil, 1930 Lady Georgia Sitwell, 1930 Gary Cooper, 1931 Molly Fink, 1926...
academics at the University, included: Owen Barfield Jack A. W. Bennett LordDavidCecil Nevill Coghill Hugo Dyson Adam Fox Robert Havard C. S. Lewis Warren...
artistic experimentation, Trollope's standing with critics suffered. But LordDavidCecil noted in 1934 that "Trollope is still very much alive ... and among...
included C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Warren Lewis, LordDavidCecil, and Nevill Coghill. He published The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise:...
whom he shared lodgings), Roy Harrod, Robert Boothby, L. P. Hartley, LordDavidCecil, J. B. S. Haldane and Christopher Hollis. He also became a friend of...
nicknamed "Electric Brain" because of his calmness in the hottest action. LordDavidCecil saw Wuthering Heights as dominated by the contrast between what he...
difference between the obscure and the renowned in the poem, scholar LordDavidCecil argued: "Death, he perceives, dwarfs human differences. There is not...