Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord"...
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Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil KCMG DSO (12 July 1867 – 13 December 1918), known as Lord Edward Cecil, was a distinguished and highly decorated English...
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Marquess of Salisbury (redirect from Lord Cecil of Essendon)
Cecil notably served under Elizabeth and later King James I as Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Privy Seal and Lord High...
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Heights and Lord David Cecil", The Use of English, Volume 60.2 Spring 2009, p. 105. Paul Fletcher, "Wuthering Heights and Lord David Cecil", p. 105. "Wuthering...
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Century British MP and peer Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), British biographer, literary scholar and academic David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905–1981)...
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Lord Cecil may refer to: Baron Cecil, a subsidiary title of the Marquess of Salisbury Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), English aristocrat, literary scholar...
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actor. Cecil was born on 22 February 1939, in Westminster, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather...
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Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as British Prime Minister, by his wife Georgina (née Alderson). The Right Reverend Lord William Cecil, Lord...
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younger brother was the journalist Lord Richard Cecil, who was killed covering the conflict in Rhodesia in 1978. Lord Cranborne attended Eton College and...
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David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, KCMG, KStJ (9 February 1905 – 21 October 1981), styled Lord Burghley from birth until 1956 and also...
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of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated...
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Charles James (designer), 1929 Lillian Gish, 1929 Oliver Messel, 1929 Lord David Cecil, 1930 Lady Georgia Sitwell, 1930 Gary Cooper, 1931 Molly Fink, 1926...
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923...
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many of them academics at the University, included: Owen Barfield Lord David Cecil Hugo Dyson Adam Fox Robert Havard (Lewis's and Tolkien's doctor, dubbed...
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artistic experimentation, Trollope's standing with critics suffered. But Lord David Cecil noted in 1934 that "Trollope is still very much alive ... and among...
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pedigree painted at Theobalds. The Lord Treasurer's grandfather, David Cecil, had moved to Stamford. David Cecil secured the favour of the first Tudor...
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is a foreign country" can be traced to one used by Hartley's friend Lord David Cecil in his inaugural lecture as Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature...
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Maurice Bowra (redirect from Cecil Maurice Bowra)
whom he shared lodgings), Roy Harrod, Robert Boothby, L. P. Hartley, Lord David Cecil, J. B. S. Haldane and Christopher Hollis. He also became a friend of...
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" It was signed by W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Sir Arthur Bryant, Lord David Cecil, Graham Greene, John G. Murray, Harold Nicolson, Max Reinhardt, Dr...
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While there, Hartley made a number of literary friends, including Lord David Cecil and Aldous Huxley. He left Oxford in 1921 with second-class honours...
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nicknamed "Electric Brain" because of his calmness in the hottest action. Lord David Cecil saw Wuthering Heights as dominated by the contrast between what he...
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Walter Leslie Wilmshurst William Wordsworth W. B. Yeats Edited by Lord David Cecil. Poets included were: Joseph Addison Matthew Arnold John Austin William...
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Wits. He was part of the Hypocrites' Club that included Harold Acton, Lord David Cecil, L. P. Hartley and Evelyn Waugh. At Oxford, Howard was part of the...
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puck Chuck Cecil (born 1964), American football player David Cecil (courtier) (c. 1460 – 1540), politician and courtier Lord David Cecil (1902–1986)...
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years. Pym was chosen as the most underrated writer by both Larkin and Lord David Cecil; she was the only novelist to be selected by two contributors. On the...
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Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (/ˈɡæskɔɪn ˈsɪsəl/; 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British...
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difference between the obscure and the renowned in the poem, scholar Lord David Cecil argued: "Death, he perceives, dwarfs human differences. There is not...
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being either "of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic mood". As Lord David Cecil remarked, "Thackeray liked people, and for the most part he thought...
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fiction. She had studied the author at St Hilda's College, Oxford under Lord David Cecil, a biographer of Austen. Aston felt that Austen's novels were "as fresh...
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Dramatic Society and President of the Asiatic Society. Along with Lord David Cecil and R. E. Gathorne-Hardy he founded the Uffizi Society, of which he...
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