Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne

The Right Honourable
Viscount Cranborne
MP
Born1619
Died1660 (aged 40–41)
NationalityEnglish
OccupationPolitician
SpouseLady Diana Maxwell
ChildrenJames Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
Parent(s)William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
Lady Catherine Howard

Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne MP (1619 – December 1660),[1] was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.

Cranborne was the eldest son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Lady Catherine Howard, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Suffolk and bore the courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[2]

In April 1640, Cranborne was elected Member of Parliament for Hertford for the Short Parliament and he was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament.[3] He was Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1640 to 1642. Although not specifically excluded under Pride's Purge, he is not recorded as sitting subsequently.

Cranborne predeceased his father at the age of 40 without inheriting the earldom. He had married Lady Diana Maxwell, daughter of James Maxwell, 1st Earl of Dirletoun. Their son James succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Salisbury.

References

  1. ^ James Balfour Paul (1906). The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. D. Douglas. p. 130.
  2. ^ "Cecil, Charles, Viscount Cranborne (CCL634C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Vacant Member of Parliament for Hertford
1640–1648
With: Sir Thomas Fanshawe
William Leman 		Succeeded by