Sackville Arthur Cecil, Company director, railway administrator, chairman of the Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company.
Dates: 16 March 1848 – 29 January 1898
Biography
The eldest son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, worked with Sir Charles Tilston Bright on submarine telegraph cables, became a director of several telegraph companies, served as assistant general manager of the Great Eastern Railway and general manager of the Metropolitan District Railway, and died unmarried.
Notes / Sources
Hatfield House Archives, Papers of Lord Sackville Arthur Cecil — https://hatfield-house.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PAPERS-OF-LORD-SACKVILLE-ARTHUR-CECIL-1848-1898.pdf
Darwin Correspondence Project, Sackville Arthur Cecil — https://darwin-editorial.darwinproject.ac.uk/view/nameregs/nameregs_5348
Wikimedia Commons, Salisbury arms of the 2nd Marquess — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shield_of_arms_of_James_Gascoyne-Cecil,_2nd_Marquess_of_Salisbury,_KG,_PC.png
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Orchardmains younger-son branch
Father: James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
Mother: Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West
Armorial Registry
Cecil of Orchardmains — Lord Sackville Arthur Cecil
Branch: Orchardmains younger-son branch of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
Issued / recorded: 1848
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