Robert Cecil (1670–1716)
Robert Cecil (1670 – 23 February 1716), of St. Anne's, Westminster and King's Walden, Hertfordshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the
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Cecil was baptized on 6 November 1670, the second son of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. He married by licence dated 28 July 1690, Elizabeth Hale, for whom he had once fought a duel and been wounded. She was the widow of William Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire, and daughter and heir of Isaac Meynell of Meynell Langley, Derbyshire.[1]
Cecil stood unsuccessfully for
Cecil was known as fat Cecil and was reported in 1704 as having been 30 stone. He suffered continually from ill-health and died on 23 February 1716. He left his estates to his widow Elizabeth, by whom he had three sons and two daughters[1] including Charles, who became Bishop of Bangor, and Margaret, who married Sir Robert Brown Bt.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "CECIL, Hon. Robert (1670-1716), of St. Anne's, Westminster and King's Walden, Herts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ cracroftspeerage.co.uk