He was the son of Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter and Isabella Poyntz.[1]He was born on the 30th of April 1825.[1]He married the Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford and the Lady Georgiana Emma Charlotte Lygon, on the 17th of October 1848.[1]At St. George Hanover Square, London, England.[2]He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) He held the office of Treasurer of the Household in 1866.[1]He died on the 14th of July 1895 at the age of 70,[1]citing Death, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.[3][4][5]
Titles
3rd Marquess of Exeter [U.K., 1801] on 16 January 1867.[1]
12th Earl of Exeter [E., 1605] on 16 January 1867.[1]
13th Baron of Burghley, co. Northampton [E., 1571] on 16 January 1867.[1]
Member of Parliament
(M.P.) (Conservative) for South Lincolnshire between July 29, 1847 - March 27, 1857.[6]
(M.P.) (Conservative) for North Northamptonshire between March 27, 1857 - January 16, 1867.[6]
↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2648-5VP : 13 December 2014), William Alleyne Cecil, 1848; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1848, quarter 4, vol. 1, p. 7, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JG1-TTN : 31 December 2014), William Alleyne Marquis Of Exeter Cecil, 1895; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-4NFG : 13 December 2015), William Alleyne Cecil, 1895; Burial, Barnack, Peterborough Unitary Authority, Cambridgeshire, England, St John the Baptist Churchyard; citing record ID 30625195, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
"England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WR6K-BMM : 12 December 2017), William Alleyne Cecil, St Martin Stamford Baron, Lincolnshire, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Lincolnshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 204.
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 427.
"British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-9F98 : 9 March 2017), William Alleyne Cecil in entry for Brownlow Cecil, 1867.
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