Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley
- Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley
Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, PC (1865–1 April 1941) was a British, Conservative Party politician.
Born in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square in the heart of London's Mayfair] , Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil (himself a son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury) and was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Private Secretary from 1891-2, to the Prime Minister, his uncle, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, during the latter's second term and during his third term from 1895-1902. On 16 February 1898, Cecil had married Hon. Alicia Amherst (a daughter of the 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) and they had three children: Robert William Evelyn, later 2nd Baron Rockley (1901-1976), Margaret Gertrude (d. 1962) and Maud Katharine Alicia (d. 1981).
Cecil has served as a MP from 1898-1929 and was appointed a GBE in 1922 and raised to the Peerage in 1934 as Baron Rockley, of Lytchett Heath, County Dorset.
He died in 1941 in Poole aged 75.
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