The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | |
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| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
| In office 10 November 1924 – 19 October 1927 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Josiah Wedgwood |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Cushendum |
| Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | |
| In office 28 May 1923 – 22 January 1924 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Austen Chamberlain |
| Succeeded by | John Robert Clynes |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 30 May 1915 – 10 January 1919 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Neil Primrose |
| Succeeded by | Cecil Harmsworth |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 28 December 1923 – 24 November 1958 Hereditary peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Hitchin | |
| In office 23 November 1911 – 16 November 1923 | |
| Preceded by | Alfred Hillier |
| Succeeded by | Guy Kindersley |
| Member of Parliament for Marylebone East | |
| In office 12 January 1906 – 15 January 1910 | |
| Preceded by | Edmund Boulnois |
| Succeeded by | James Boyton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 September 1864 Cavendish Square, London, England |
| Died | 24 November 1958 (aged 94) Danehill, East Sussex, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Lady Eleanor Lambton
(m. 1889–1958) |
| Parents |
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| Education | University College, Oxford (MA) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize (1937) |
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923,[1] was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.
- ^ As the younger son of a Marquess, Cecil held the courtesy title of "Lord". However, he was not a peer in his own right until he was made a Viscount in 1923 and so was eligible to sit in the House of Commons between 1906 and 1923.