David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter, Member of Parliament for Peterborough in the Short Parliament of 1640, 4th Baron Burghley, inherited the Exeter and Burghley estates and titles on 6 July 1640., 3rd Earl of Exeter and 4th Baron Burghley from 6 July 1640, Member of Parliament for Peterborough in 1640., Member of Parliament for Peterborough in 1640, Parliamentarian Lord Lieutenant of Rutland., Member of Parliament for Peterborough, 3rd Earl of Exeter and 4th Baron Burghley from 1640., Member of Parliament for Peterborough in the Short Parliament of 1640., 5th Baron Burghley, Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire in 1642.
Dates: c.1600 or c.1604 – 18 April 1643
Biography
Only son of Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley and Elizabeth Cope. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1627. Through the failure of the senior Exeter male succession, he inherited the earldom and barony in 1640. He died in London in 1643 and was buried at St Martin's, Stamford.
Notes / Sources
Complete Peerage, Exeter succession — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Complete_Peerage_Ed_1_Vol_3.djvu/302
The Peerage, David Cecil and children — https://thepeerage.org/p1636.htm
Victoria County History of Rutland, Barrowden settlement — https://www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/pdf/VCH2.pdf
Cecil arms category, Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cecil_arms
Exeter pedigree, Cracroft's Peerage — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/exeter1605.htm
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Cecil of Wakerley, later senior Cecil of Exeter
Father: Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley
Mother: Elizabeth Cope
Spouse(s): Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and Lady Frances Stanley
Children / next generation: John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter; Thomas Cecil, died unmarried and without issue in or about May 1641; Lady Frances Cecil, married Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Armorial Registry
Cecil of Wakerley — David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter, succession from the Richard Cecil branch
Branch: Wakerley succession into the Exeter earldom
Issued / recorded: 1600
Cecil of Wakerley and Exeter — David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter, succession from the second son of Thomas Cecil
Branch: Cecil of Wakerley, succeeding to the senior Cecil of Exeter and Burghley titles in 1640
Issued / recorded: 1640
Cecil of Wakerley and Exeter — David Cecil's succession from the cadet household to the senior Exeter peerage
Branch: Wakerley-to-Exeter succession; son and heir of Sir Richard Cecil
Issued / recorded: 1640
Cecil of Wakerley–Exeter — David Cecil's succession and continuation of the Wakerley branch
Branch: Wakerley male line, succeeding into the senior Exeter title
Issued / recorded: 1640
Cecil of Exeter — David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter, Wakerley succession to the Burghley inheritance
Branch: Wakerley collateral branch succeeding to the senior Exeter earldom
Issued / recorded: 1640-07-06
Cecil of Wakerley–Exeter — David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter
Branch: Wakerley branch, succeeding into the senior Exeter earldom
Issued / recorded: 6 July 1640
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