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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.