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Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (UK, 1923 - 1958)

Creation: let.pat. 24 Dec 1923

Extinct: 24 Nov 1958

Family name: Gascoyne-Cecil

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure over all six Escutcheons Sable three two and one each charged with a Lion rampant Argent (Cecil);  2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Pale Sable a Conger's Head erased and erect Or charged with an Ermine Spot (Gascoyne);  for difference at centre point a Mullet

Crests:

1. Six Arrows in saltire Or barbed and flighted Argent girt together with a Belt Gules buckled and garnished Gold over the Arrows a Morion Cap proper (Cecil);  2. A Conger's Head erased and erect Or charged with an Ermine Spot (Gascoyne);  each crest differenced by a Mullet

Supporters:

On either side a Lion Ermine charged on the shoulder with a Branch of Olive fructed and slipped proper

Motto:

 Sero Sed Serio

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Edgar Algernon Robert [Gascoyne-Cecil], 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, PC

3rd son of Robert Arthur Talbot [Gascoyne-Cecil], 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, by his wife Georgiana Charlotte Alderson, 1st dau. of Sir Edward Hall Alderson, a Baron of the Exchequer

born

14 Sep 1864

mar.

22 Jan 1889 Lady Eleanor Lambton (dsp. 24 Apr 1959), 3rd dau. of George Frederick D'Arcy [Lambton], 2nd Earl of Durham, by his wife Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton, 2nd dau. of James [Hamilton], 1st Duke of Abercorn

died

s.p. 24 Nov 1958

created

24 Dec 1923 Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, of Grinstead in the County of Sussex

note

Private Secretary to his father 1886-88; Barrister, Inner Temple 1887; QC 1899; Member of Parliament (Conservative) for East Marylebone 1906-10 and (Independent Conservative) for Hitchin 1911-23; Chancellor of the Consistory Court of York and Vicar-General of the Archbishopric of York 1915; Privy Councillor 1915; Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1915-18; Minister of Blockade 1916-18; Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1918-19; Chancellor of the University of Birmingham 1918; a Bencher of the Inner Temple; Lord Privy Seal 1923-24; Lord Rector of Aberdeen University 1924-27; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1924-27; Chief British Delegate to the Opium Conference at Geneva 1925; sometime Chairman and later President of the League of Nations Union; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1937

First written 4 Feb 2009

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