Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil, Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy, Commander of the Dartmouth Training Squadron, NATO Commander of the South East Mediterranean, Commander of British Forces and Flag Officer, Malta, Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, KBE, CB and KStJ., Companion of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 1980–1985, Knight of Justice of the Order of St John.
Dates: 11 November 1925 – 10 March 2017
Biography
Second son of Commander Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil and Hon. Yvonne Cornwallis, and grandson of Lord William Cecil and Mary, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney. He pursued a senior naval career and later served as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man. His marriage to Annette Barclay joined this Cecil-Amherst collateral branch to the Scottish Barclay of Mathers and Urie line.
Notes / Sources
The Peerage, Person Page 6478 — https://www.thepeerage.com/p6478.htm
Landed Families of Britain and Ireland, Tyssen-Amherst later Cecil — https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2014/05/122-tyssen-amherst-later-cecil-of.html
Cracroft's Peerage, Amherst of Hackney — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/amherst1892.htm
Wikimedia Commons, Arms of Baron Amherst of Hackney — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arms_of_Baron_Amherst_of_Hackney.svg
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Cecil-Amherst of Foulden and Hackney; Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil–Cornwallis–Barclay branch
Father: Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil
Mother: Hon. Yvonne Cornwallis
Spouse(s): Annette Barclay
Children / next generation: Robert Barclay Amherst Cecil
Armorial Registry
Amherst-Cecil of Foulden and Hackney — Rear-Admiral Sir Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil and the naval-gubernatorial continuation
Branch: Only surviving son of Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil; Isle of Man and Royal Navy continuation
Issued / recorded: 1925-11-11
Cecil-Amherst of Foulden and Hackney — Rear-Admiral Sir Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil and the Barclay collateral branch
Branch: Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil collateral line; naval and Barclay-marriage branch
Issued / recorded: 1925-11-11
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