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.
CECIL, HON. WILLIAM, younger brother of James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (qv); b. 13 Feb 1717/8; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1730; left 1734; d. unm. at Aachen, Germany, 5 May 1740.
Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley; only son of Richard Cecil MP, Little Burghley, Northants, Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Henry VIII, and Jane, dau. of William Heckington, Bourne, Lincs. ; b. 18 Sep 1520 (or 1521) ; educ. at schools in Stamford and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. May 1535 ; MA 1564 (incorp. Oxford 1566) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1541 ; MP unknown constituency 1542, Stamford 1547, Lincolnshire 1553, 1555, 1559, Northamptonshire 1563 ; Recorder of Boston from 14 May 1545, of Stamford by 1580 ; entered service of Protector Somerset 1547, becoming his secretary in 1548 ; Custos Brevium, Court of Common Pleas 6 May 1548 ; imprisoned in Tower of London Nov 1549 – Jan 1550 ; Secretary of State Sep 1550 – Jul 1553 ; Privy Councillor Sep 1550 ; knighted 11 Oct 1551 ; lived in retirement during reign of Mary I, except for a mission in 1554 to bring Cardinal Pole to England ; returned to favour on accession of Elizabeth I ; Secretary of State (reappointed) 17 Nov 1558 – Jul 1572 ; Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., from 1559 ; Master, Court of Wards, from Jan 1560/1 ; cr. Baron Burghley 25 Feb 1570/1 ; KG 1572 ; Lord High Treasurer from Jul 1572 ; High Steward of Westminster from 1561 ; m.1st, 8 Aug 1541 Mary, dau. of Peter Cheke, Esquire Bedell in Divinity, Cambridge Univ., , and sister of Sir John Cheke Kt, academic and courtier ; m.2nd, 21 Dec 1545 Mildred (see above), dau. of Sir Anthony Cooke KB MP, Gidea Hall, Essex ; d. 4 May 1598. ODNB.
By deed poll dated 10 Apr 1594 he granted two farm rents, of £10 and £3 6s 8d respectively, payable out of Finchstock and Fawler in the parish of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, “in trust, to bestow the same in money, books, or otherwise, as necessity or occasion shall be, upon such or so many scholars that shall yearly be chosen or elected from or out of, the free grammar school of Westminster to either of the … Universities, in such sort, manner, or form, as the Dean of Westminster for the time being, and the two principal electors that shall come from Cambridge and Oxford, and the chief schoolmaster of the said free grammar school of Westminster for the time being, in their good discretions, shall think most meet and convenient, and to no other use intent or purpose”. The income was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Lord Burghley exhibition.
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CHADWICK, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765.
CHADWICK, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 12) Aug 1719; in under school list 1722.