CECIL, James (1666-94) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. 26 Sept. 1666, HHM, Genealogies, 65. 1st s. James Cecil, 3rd earl of Salisbury and Margaret, da. John Manners, 8th earl of Rutland; bro. of Robert Cecil^‡. educ. St John’s, Camb. 1682; travelled abroad (France and Italy) c.1683-8. HHM, Family pprs. ix. 159; Genealogies, 65; LJ, xiv. 327. m. 13 July 1683 (with £20,000), TNA, C5/71/86. Frances (d. 8 July 1713), da. and coh. of. Simon Bennet of Beachampton and Calverton, Bucks., 1s. 1da. d.v.p. Family pprs. Supplement, 3, 2. d. 24 Oct. 1694; will 22 Dec. 1692 – 2 Sept. 1694, pr. 6 Nov. 1694. TNA, PROB 11/423.

Offices Held

Gent. of the bedchamber 29 Nov.-24 Dec. 1688. CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 367.

High steward, Hertford 1684–d. Genealogies, 65; L. Turnor, Hist. of ... Hertford, 120; CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 246.

Capt., tp. of horse 27 Sept. – 5 Nov. 1688; col., regt. of horse 5 Nov.-14 Dec. 1688. CSP Dom. 1687–9, pp. 285, 341, 368; 1689–90, p. 13–14.

Parlimentarian

CECIL, James (1666-94)

Associated with: Hatfield House, Herts. and Salisbury House, London.

Likenesses

, group portrait with sister Catherine Cecil, oil on canvas by John Michael Wright, c.1668, Hatfield House, Herts.; two portraits, oil on canvas, by William Wissing c.1685, Hatfield House, Herts.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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