England
Cecil of Orchardmains — Lord Arthur Cecil
- Family / house
- Cecil; Gascoyne-Cecil; Salisbury; Hatfield; Orchardmains; Passford House; Lymington; Hampshire Regiment
- Family / cadet branch
- Orchardmains younger-son branch of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
- Armiger / bearer
- Lord Arthur Cecil
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Contemporary peerage records; Hatfield and Orchardmains family evidence; Salisbury heraldic tradition
- Record basis
- attributed
- Issued / first recorded
- 1851
- Until / superseded
- 1913
- Historical period
- Victorian and Edwardian periods
- Blazon
- Attributed inherited paternal arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot. The Salisbury Cecil component is associated with a crescent Gules for cadency in the relevant family tradition.
- Plain-English description
- Lord Arthur Cecil belonged to the second-marriage younger-son branch of the Salisbury marquessate. His paternal arms were the Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury arms by inheritance, but no personal grant or specific cadency mark has been located. His marriages created a continuing collateral family line through his sons.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Or; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- Six escutcheons charged with lions rampant; Conger's heads; Ermine spot; Crescent Gules
- Crest
- Associated Salisbury crests: six arrows in saltire Or bound with a belt Gules and surmounted by a morion cap Proper; and a conger's head erased and erect Or charged with an ermine spot.
- Motto
- SERO SED SERIO
- Exterior ornaments
- No individually documented supporters or personal coronet located. The full Salisbury marquessal achievement uses two lions Ermine as supporters.
- Difference / variant
- Younger son of the 2nd Marquess by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. The branch is armorially treated here as inherited family arms rather than as a separately granted variant.
- Source reference
- Dod's Peerage, Salisbury family entry
- Linked historical person
- Arthur Cecil
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- 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.
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The sons Arthur William James Cecil and Reginald Edward Cecil are important expansion targets because they represent the only clearly evidenced continuing male-line issue from this second-marriage branch.