William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–53 and 1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Father to Robert Cecil. Inherited Beaufort House shortly before his death.
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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
This unusual memorial was created by Ernest and Mary Gillick in their studio ...
A plot to murder the Tory Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and the whole cabinet, as they had dinner at a house on Grosvenor Square. The dinner had been announced in a newspaper but this was probabl...
Chairman of the Governing Council of Goodenough College, 2006.
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
Entrepreneur, the organiser of England's first lottery. Known as 'The Great Projector' although the layout of the Seven Dials area is his only surviving London project. Neal Street and Neal's Yard...
Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. Â Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Â His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.
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