Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Privy Councillor, King's Counsel, Member of Parliament for East Marylebone and Hitchin, Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, founder and president of the League of Nations Union, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1937., Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Blockade, Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Rector of Aberdeen University, President of the League of Nations Union, Conservative Member of Parliament for Marylebone East and Hitchin, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
Dates: 14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958
Biography
British lawyer, Conservative and independent Conservative politician, diplomat and major advocate of the League of Nations. He was the third son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and founded a non-hereditary collateral peerage that became extinct at his death without issue.
Notes / Sources
Cracroft's Peerage, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/cecil1923.htm
Wikimedia Commons, Cecil arms category — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cecil_arms
British Library, Cecil of Chelwood Papers — https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-001959005
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Chelwood branch
Father: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Mother: Georgina Alderson
Spouse(s): Lady Eleanor Lambton, daughter of George Frederick D'Arcy, 2nd Earl of Durham
Armorial Registry
Cecil-Gascoyne-Cecil of Chelwood — differentiated achievement of Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil
Branch: Chelwood branch of the Salisbury marquessate; third son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Issued / recorded: 1923
Cecil of Chelwood — Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood and the mullet-differenced Salisbury cadet achievement
Branch: Third son of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Viscount Cecil of Chelwood branch
Issued / recorded: 1923-12-24
Cecil-Gascoyne-Cecil of Chelwood — full peerage achievement of Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Branch: Chelwood branch of the Salisbury marquessate
Issued / recorded: 1923-12-24
Record history (latest 1)
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3 Sep 2026, 07:19 UTC · Registry system
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