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Lord David Cecil
CH
Born
Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil

(1902-04-09)9 April 1902
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
Died1 January 1986(1986-01-01) (aged 83)
Cranborne, Dorset, England
EducationEton College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Occupations
  • Biographer
  • Historian
  • Academic
Employers
  • Wadham College, Oxford
  • New College, Oxford
Spouse
Rachel MacCarthy
(m. 1932)
Children3, including Jonathan
Parents
  • James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
  • Lady Cicely Gore
Lord David Cecil (left) with T. S. Eliot, photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell

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.

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