The Right Honourable
The Lord Rockley
GBE PC
Parliamentary groupConservative

Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, PC (30 May 1865 – 1 April 1941) was a British, Conservative Party politician.

Evelyn Cecil was born in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square in the heart of London's Mayfair. Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil, grandson of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, and cousin of both Sir Robert Cecil and Arthur Balfour.

He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. Cecil was Private Secretary from 1891 to 1892, to the Prime Minister, his uncle, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, during the latter's second term and during his third term from 1895 to 1902.

On 16 February 1898, Cecil had married Hon. Alicia Amherst (a garden historian and daughter of William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) and they had three children: Robert William Evelyn, later 2nd Baron Rockley (28 February 1901– 26 January 1976),[1] Margaret Gertrude (27 November 1898 – 26 August 1962) and Maud Katharine Alicia (21 November 1904 - 12 June 1981).[2] [3]

Cecil served as a Member of Parliament from 1898 to 1929 and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1922 New Year Honours.[4] He was raised to the Peerage on 11 January 1934 as Baron Rockley, of Lytchett Heath, in the County of Dorset.[5]

He died in 1941 in Poole aged 75.

Arms

Coat of arms of Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley
Crest
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.
Escutcheon
Barry of ten Argent and Azure over all six escutcheons Sable three two and one each charged with a lion rampant of the first and for difference a crescent Gules charged with another crescent Or.
Supporters
On either side a lion Ermine gorged with a collar Or pendent therefrom an escutcheon the dexter Sable a lion rampant Argnet and the sinister Gules three tilting spears erect Or headed Argent.
Motto
Sero Sed Serio[6]

References

  1. ^ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1919
  2. ^ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1919
  3. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
  4. ^ "No. 32563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1921. p. 10716.
  5. ^ "No. 34015". The London Gazette. 16 January 1934. p. 386.
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1956.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byAbel Smith Member of Parliament for Hertford 1898–1900 Succeeded byAbel Henry Smith Preceded byGeorge Grice-Hutchinson Member of Parliament for Aston Manor 1900–1918 constituency renamed New constituency Member of Parliament for Birmingham Aston 1918–1929 Succeeded byJohn Strachey Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Rockley 1934–1941 Succeeded byRobert Cecil
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