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Gawthorne, Peter Patrick, son of Peter Alfred Gawthorne, actor and playwright, and Ethel Marie, d. of George Siddle of Penshurst, Kent; b. 15 July 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (H); left July 1938; BNC Oxf., matric. 1938; HM Colonial Service Tanganyika 1940; E. African Artillery 1940 (Capt.); asst DO Tanganyika 1942, DO 1950; District Commr 1954, dep. Provincial Commr 1958; Principal Asst Sec. Min. of Local Govt & Housing 1959, retd 1963; Public Notary (Gloucs) 1968; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1969; m. 6 Feb. 1943 Jane Margaret, d. of Lieut-Col. Erling Knapp DSO, of Makonikop, Rusaki, S. Rhodesia; d. 15 July 1991.

Cazeaux, Edward Maximilian, son of Edward R. Cazeaux, of Bromley, Kent; b. Jan. 3, 1901; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (H); left 1919.

CECIL, HON. ALGERNON, fifth son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (qv); b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1641; among the Steward’s accounts at Hatfield for the year 1640-1 are payments “to Mr Busby for diet for the two gentlemen [William and Algernon Cecil] at the rate of £60 per ann., and their servant at £15 per ann. ”, for “potation money” at Easter 5s., and on “Mr Algernon’s admittance to be a King’s Scholar” £3. 15s. 9d.; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Apr 1645, MA 1644 (check); MP Old Sarum 1660, but his election was disputed and he did not take his seat; m. Dorothy, dau. of Sandford Nevile, Chevet, Yorks.; d. Nov. 1676.

CECIL, HON. CHRISTOPHER, fourth son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter KG, and his first wife Hon. Dorothy Nevill, dau. of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer; b. 4 May 1576; at school under Grant; Pembroke Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner, matr. c. 1593; adm. Gray’s Inn 4 Nov 1597; a Latin letter written by Cecil to his grandfather, Lord Burghley, dated from Westminster School 6 Apr 1591, is among the Lansdowne MSS, British Library; drowned in Germany before 12 Jan 1603/4.

CECIL, JAMES, 6TH EARL OF SALISBURY, elder son of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Lady Anne Tufton, second dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet; b. 20 Oct 1713; adm. Sep 1724; in school list 1729; succ. father as 6th Earl of Salisbury 9 Oct 1728; High Steward of Hertford from 1735; a Governor of the Foundling Hospital, 7 Aug 1739; m. 28 Jun 1744/5 Elizabeth, elder dau. of Edward Keet, Canterbury, Kent; d. 19 Sep 1780.

Cecil, Mildred, Lady Burghley; eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke KB MP, Gidea Hall, Essex, tutor to Edward VI, and Anne, widow of Sir John Hawes Kt, and dau. of Sir William Fitzwilliam Kt, Gains Park, Essex, merchant ; b.1526 ; intellectual and Greek scholar ; m. 21 Dec 1545, as his second wife, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (below) ; d. 24 Apr 1589. Buried St.Nicholas’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
During her lifetime she gave to the School a number of books now kept in the Busby Library.

CECIL, WILLIAM, 17TH BARON DE ROS, only son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter KG, and his first wife Lady Elizabeth Manners, Baroness De Ros, only d. of Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland KG; nephew of Hon. Christopher Cecil (qv); b. 1590; succ. his mother as 17th Baron De Ros 11 May 1591; at school in 1603 (Chapter Muniments 33656); Ambassador to Spain, 1616-7; m. 12 Feb 1615/6 Elizabeth, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Thomas Lake Kt PC, Canons, Middlesex, Secretary of State; d. at Naples 27 Jun 1618.

CECIL, WILLIAM, 2ND EARL OF SALISBURY, eldest son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury KG, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I, and Hon. Elizabeth Brooke, dau. of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham KG; b. 28 Mar 1591; at school under Ireland (Dalton, Life and times of Viscount Wimbledon, 1885, i, 204, note); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, fellow commoner, matr. Mich. 1602; MA 1605 (also created MA Oxford, 30 Aug 1605); KB 6 Jan 1604/5; adm. Gray’s Inn, 2 Feb 1604/5; MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1610-1; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Salisbury 24 May 1612; Lord Lieut., Hertfordshire, 10 Jul 1612; KG 31 Dec 1624; carried Sceptre with the Cross at coronation of Charles I, 2 Feb 1626; Privy Councillor 22 Jul 1626; Captain, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 1635-42; one of the noblemen named by the King to treat with the Scots at Ripon, 1640; Lord Lieut., Dorset, 15 May 1641; took the Parliamentary side in the Civil War; one of the four Earls sent to treat with the King at Oxford Jan 1642/3; member, Assembly of Divines, 7 Jun 1643; a Commissioner at Conference of Uxbridge, 1645; voted a Marquisate by Parliament, 1 Dec 1645; MP King’s Lynn 1645, Hertfordshire 1654, 1656; a Commissioner of the Great Seal Jul - Oct 1646; a Commissioner at Conference at Newport, 1648; a Councillor of State, Feb 1649; High Steward of St. Alban’s 1663; m. 1 Dec 1608 Lady Catherine Howard, youngest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk KG; d. 3 Dec 1668.

CECIL, HON. WILLIAM, fourth son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 25 Apr 1627; at school under Busby (Hatfield Steward’s Account, 29 Sep 1641, Salisbury MSS); m. 16 Aug 1649 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Lawley, Bart.; d. 9 Dec 1668.