The Right Honourable Evelyn Cecil

1st Baron Rockley in the peerage of the United Kingdom
British peer
Born
30 May 1865, Mayfair (Middlesex), England
Died
1 April 1941, Poole (Dorset), England
Sex
Male
Father
Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne-Cecil (son of 2nd Marquess of Salisbury)
Mother
Lady Gertrude Scott (daughter of 2nd Earl of Eldon)
Married The Hon Alicia Amherst (daughter of 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney)

Legal admissions

Career

  • Called to the Bar (Inner Temple) 3 Jul 1889.
  • Member of UK House of Commons 1898-1929.
  • GBE 1922.
  • PC.
  • Created Baron Rockley in the peerage of the United Kingdom 1934.

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