Captain the Hon. William Amherst Cecil, MC, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Military Cross, heir-presumptive to the Amherst of Hackney barony through his mother., Lieutenant and captain in the Grenadier Guards, awarded the Military Cross in 1914, killed of wounds received at the Battle of the Aisne., Grenadier Guards, eldest son and heir apparent of the 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney
Dates: 30 June 1886 – 16 September 1914
Biography
Eldest son of Colonel Lord William Cecil and Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst. He married Gladys Evelyn Baggallay on 14 April 1910 and had two sons, William Alexander Evering Cecil and Henry Kerr Auchmuty Cecil. He was killed in action at the First Battle of the Aisne on 16 September 1914 while serving with the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Notes / Sources
Houses of Parliament, Royal Gallery First World War Memorial — https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/War-Memorial-Lists/War-Memorial-Royal-Gallery-WW1.pdf
Cracroft’s Peerage, Baron Amherst of Hackney — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/amherst1892.htm
National Archives, Amherst Family Papers of Didlington — https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f5b12767-0453-48a5-87cd-1cc070b0ab6e
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Eldest-son and wartime heir branch of the Cecil–Amherst succession
Father: Colonel Lord William Cecil
Mother: Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney
Spouse(s): Gladys Evelyn Baggallay
Children / next generation: William Alexander Evering Cecil, 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney; Lieutenant the Hon. Henry Kerr Auchmuty Cecil
Armorial Registry
Cecil of Exeter — Captain William Amherst Cecil and the interrupted first-generation succession
Branch: Eldest son of Lord William Cecil and Mary, 2nd Baroness Amherst; intended successor under the special remainder
Issued / recorded: 1910-04-14
Cecil–Baggallay of Didlington and Hackney — heir-presumptive branch through Captain William Amherst Cecil
Branch: Eldest-son branch of Lord William Cecil and Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; heir-presumptive to the Amherst barony
Issued / recorded: 2 September 1885
Cecil-Amherst of Foulden and Hackney — Captain the Honourable William Amherst Cecil and the interrupted first-generation succession
Branch: Eldest-son branch of Lord William Cecil and Mary, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney
Issued / recorded: 30 June 1886
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