Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, Personal Computer was a British, Conservative Party politician.
Background
Born in the parish of Street George"s, Hanover Square in the heart of London"s Mayfair, Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil, grandson of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, and cousin of both Sir Robert Cecil and Arthur Balfour.
Education
He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.
Career
On 16 February 1898, Cecil had married Honorary Alicia Amherst (a daughter of William Tyssen-Amherst, 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). He died in 1941 in Poole aged 75.
Membership
26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament. 28th United Kingdom Parliament.
29th United Kingdom Parliament.
30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament.
32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament]
Cecil served as a Member of Parliament from 1898–1929 and was appointed a GBE in 1922 and raised to the Peerage in 1934 as Baron Rockley, of Lytchett Heath, in the County of Dorset.