Lord William Cecil (courtier)

Colonel Lord William Cecil, CVO (2 November 1854 – 16 April 1943) was a British army officer and royal courtier.

Biography

Cecil was a younger son of the William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.

In 1892, he became a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and remained as such until her death in 1901. He was then an Extra Gentleman Usher from 1924 under King George V until his retirement in 1937.

Cecil was colonel of the 4th (Militia) Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment.

On 2 September 1885, he had married Hon. Mary Tyssen-Amherst, who succeeded her father as Baroness Amherst of Hackney in 1909. He and his wife had four children before her death in 1919 and Cecil was remarried in 1924, to Violet Collyer.

• Captain William Amherst Cecil (30 June 1886 – 16 September 1914)
• Captain Thomas James Amherst Cecil (9 November 1887 – 4 October 1955)
• John Francis Amherst Cecil (30 June 1890 – 22 October 1954) m. Cornelia Vanderbilt, daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II, and had issue
• Commander Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil (9 March 1893 – 6 January 1963)