Captain Arthur Cecil, 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, country gentleman, Justice of the Peace for Hampshire, public servant associated with Lymington and Passford House., younger son of James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
Dates: 3 July 1851 – 16 July 1913
Biography
The second son of the 2nd Marquess by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. He married Elizabeth Ann Wilson in 1874 and, after her death, Frederica von Klenck in 1902. He was associated with Orchardmains in Kent and Passford House near Lymington, supported local institutions including Lymington Cottage Hospital, and served in the Hampshire Regiment. Contemporary peerage material records two sons by his first marriage, Arthur William James Cecil and Reginald Edward Cecil, as well as daughters.
Notes / Sources
Dod's Peerage, Salisbury family entry — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dod%27s_Peerage,_Baronetage,_Knightage_etc._of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland.djvu/514
Passford House historical account of Lord Arthur Cecil — https://passfordhousehotel.co.uk/discover-more-about-queen-victorias-private-secretary-lord-arthur-cecil-former-owner-of-passford-house/
Edinburgh ArchivesSpace, Arthur Cecil, Lord, 1851–1913 — https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/agents/people/164
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
Spouse(s): Elizabeth Ann Wilson, married 8 January 1874, died 11 October 1901; Frederica von Klenck, married 4 November 1902
Children / next generation: Arthur William James Cecil, born 4 April 1875, later of the Grenadier Guards, married Beatrice Susan Theodosia Stuart-Wortley; Reginald Edward Cecil, born 15 November 1878, served in the 21st Lancers and married Mary Beatrice Pilcher; Other daughters are recorded in contemporary peerage material, but their identities require separate verification before registry creation.
Armorial Registry
Cecil of Orchardmains — Lord Arthur Cecil
Branch: Orchardmains younger-son branch of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
Issued / recorded: 1851
Gascoyne-Cecil of Salisbury — Lord Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil and the Wilson-married younger-son branch
Branch: Younger-son branch of James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West
Issued / recorded: 1874-01-08
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