Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH

Order of the Companions of Honour

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, PC, QC

Queen's Counsel

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(14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer

Lawyer

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, politician

Politician

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and diplomat

Diplomat

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in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations

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and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

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in 1937.
Cecil was born at Cavendish Square

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, London

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, the sixth child and third son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...

, three times Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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, and Georgina

Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury

Georgina Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, VA, CI was the wife of British statesman, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury....

, daughter of Sir Edward Hall Alderson

Edward Hall Alderson

Sir Edward Hall Alderson was an English lawyer and judge whose many judgments on commercial law helped to shape the emerging British capitalism of the Victorian era....