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'''William Cecil, Lord Burghley''' (1520-1598) He was born Sep 13, 1520, the only son of [[Richard Cecil]]. William's mother was Richard's wife Jane Heckington. William was born "probably" (as Townsend and Sanford, op cit) at his grandfather's house in Bourne, Lincolnshire and christened there. He married first, against his father's wishes to Mary Cheke, by whom he had only one child, his son Thomas. He was granted the manor of Coombe in 1552. He was the prime minister during the reign of [[Elizabeth I, Queen of England]]. He died on Aug 4, 1598 at his house, Burghly House, in The Strand, London, England. He was buried on Aug 29, 1598 at St Martin's, in Stamford Baron ==Secondary sources== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#The_first_series DNB], [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Brown+-+Chaloner.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.CE.15&fn=william&ln=cecil&st=d&pid=11794&rc=135,631,256,661;291,632,483,662&zp=75 "William Cecil, Lord Burghley] *Complete Peerage, "Burghley", pg 428, transcribed [http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/WilliamCecil1 here] *[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1402159013&id=Wdngqyl9coAC&pg=RA5-PA63&lpg=RA5-PA63&sig=Pdl1T_NOgmfs-4gdFstauZXCu-o The Great Governing Families of England, by Meredith White Townsend and John Langton Sanford; Vol 2, pg 63] *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43014&strquery=cecil BHO], mentioning the granting of Coombe ==External links== *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Royals/GED2WEB/people/p0000058.htm#I4801 His entry at Will Johnson's ''Royals''] *[http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en;i=312993 His entry at the Roglo database] *[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00003566&tree=LEO His entry at genealogics] *[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CECIL.htm#Richard%20CECIL%20(CYSSEL)1 The Cecil family entry at tudorplace.com.ar] *[http://www.thepeerage.com/p205.htm#i2050 His entry at thepeerage.com] *[http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4aq/cecil01.htm His entry at stirnet.com] *[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=7672598&lds=0&frompage=0 His entry at familysearch.org] *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil,_Lord_Burghley William Cecil, Lord Burghley] on Wikipedia [[Category:Desc. of Richard Cecil|Cecil, William (1)]]
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