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Sir Rt Hon. Earl Robert Cecil KG PC
(1563-1612)
statesman, Member of Parliament (1584-1585), Member of Parliament (1586-1587), Member of Parliament (1588), Member of Parliament (1592-1593), Member of Parliament (1597-1598), Lord Privy Seal (1598-1608), Member of Parliament (1601), Privy Counsellor (from 1603), 1st Baron Cecil of Essendon (1603-1612), 1st Viscount Cranborne (1604-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury (from 1605), and 401st Knight of the Order of the Garter (from 1606)
Died aged c. 49
Wikidata WikipediaRobert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612), was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603). Lord Salisbury served as the Secretary of State of England (1596–1612) and Lord High Treasurer (1608–1612), succeeding his father as Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Privy Seal and remaining in power during the first nine years of King James I's reign until his own death. The principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Robert Cecil remains a controversial historic figure as it is still debated at what point he first learned of the plot and to what extent he acted as an agent provocateur.
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Site of Pymmes House destroyed 1940 Dr Thomas Wilson Lord Burleigh Sir Robert Cecil Elizabethan statesman lived here
On building in the south-east corner of Pymmes Park, N18, by walled garden, London, United Kingdom where they lived