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Marquess of Salisbury. Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil KCMG DSO (12 July 1867 – 13 December 1918), known as Lord Edward Cecil, was a distinguished and highly decorated English soldier. As colonial administrator in Egypt and advisor to the Liberal government, he helped to implement Army reforms.
Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572 – 16 November 1638) was an English military commander and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624.
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, making him the richest man in Ireland.
Cecil Family, one of England ’s most famous and politically influential families, represented by two branches, holding respectively the marquessates of Exeter and Salisbury, both descended from William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I ’s lord treasurer.
Lord Edward Cecil was a British aristocrat, soldier and colonial administrator of Egypt in the early 20th century. If you can look past the colonial attitude and undercurrent of racism, this was a fascinating book, providing a firsthand account of a "day in the life" of the British ruling class.
Baden-Powell sent Colonel Plumer with the Rhodesian Regiment to a nearby town, Tuli, while he established his Bechuanaland Regiment in Mafeking, with a handful of British officers. His second-in-command was Major Lord Edward Cecil, son of the British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury.
Description. Group photograph in front of wall, all in tropical field service dress; four staff officers left; Colonel Reginald Wingate, Director of Military Intelligence of the Egyptian Army, and Major Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil stand to right.
