Burghley House
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Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the
The façade of Burghley House
Lord Burghley was the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign.
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards, c. 1585
The Three Brothers Browne, by Isaac Oliver, 1598. L to R: John, Anthony, William; grandsons of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague who was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot in 1571, Burghley House Collections.
William Michael Anthony Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter, is a Canadian rancher, businessman, and peer in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Burghley House
…most active live-in trustee. The Marquessate passed in 1988 to Victoria's uncle, Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909–1988), and then to his son, William Michael Anthony Cecil (b. 1935), both Canadian ranchers on land originally bought by the 5th Marquess, who have not lived at Burghley. The house is one of the main examples…
2014 photograph of 100 Mile House, Cecil's hometown.