Family / house

Cecil; Rockley

Family / cadet branch

Rockley of Lytchett Heath

Armiger / bearer

Robert William Evelyn Cecil, 2nd Baron Rockley

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Peerage and baronetage succession record

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1 April 1941

Until / superseded

26 January 1976

Historical period

Second World War and post-war Britain

Grant / record reference

Succession to Baron Rockley on 1 April 1941 under the letters patent of 11 January 1934

Blazon

Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, and for difference a crescent Gules charged with another crescent Or. Crest, supporters and motto as for the Barons Rockley.

Plain-English description

The second baron inherited the complete Rockley coat without a newly recorded personal difference: the Salisbury shield with its double crescent, the Cecil arrows and morion crest, the ermine lion supporters and the motto SERO SED SERIO.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or; Ermine

Charges / ordinaries

six lion-bearing escutcheons; double crescent; arrows and morion; ermine lions; pendant shields

Crest

As for the Barons Rockley: six arrows in saltire with morion cap.

Motto

SERO SED SERIO

Exterior ornaments

Baronial achievement inherited from the first Baron Rockley.

Difference / variant

Inherited Rockley achievement; no separate cadet difference documented.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Rockley, Baron (UK, 1934)

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley

Mother

Hon. Alicia Margaret Tyssen-Amherst

Spouse(s)

Anne Margaret Meade-Fetherstonhaugh

Children / next generation

James Hugh Cecil, 3rd Baron Rockley; Hon. Charles Evelyn Cecil; Hon. Elizabeth Anne Cecil

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources